200 Vestiges of the JVatural History of Creation. 
Another slice gave : 
Water, .... 74-3598 
Ash, .... 0-5492 
Dry matter, - - - 25-0910 
100-0000 
Ash calculated dry, - - 3-4470 
Early June, (Early Shaw in England,) is quite remarkable for 
retaining its excellent table qualities from early fall to spring; be- 
ing an early potato which keeps well, and at the same time main- 
tains its dry and mealy condition till planting time. 
As an examination of the different kinds of potatoes is still in 
progress, we propose to dismiss the subject for the present. A 
full view of the composition of this important esculent w^ill be 
given in the Agricultural Report of New York. 
Vestiges of the JVatural History of Creation. — As much doubt 
and uncertainty appears to exist in the minds of many individuals 
whose daily pursuits have not hitherto led into the profound re- 
gions of philosophy, respecting a recent work, which has obtain- 
ed no limited measure of celebrity from a certain class of readers 
in our own country, we subjoin with pleasure a brief extract from 
the reviewer of the London Atheneum, of a remarkable German 
work on Physiophilosophy, by Dr. Oken, which perfectly meets 
our views on the subject, and we cheerfully recommend it to our 
readers: 
" We mention this for the purpose of alluding to a work called 
the ' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,' which appears 
to us to have been written by an author misapprehending this 
very work by Oken. The author of that work has confounded a 
law with an idea, and represents that as positive truth which in 
Oken's pages is only a suggestion for inquiry. Thus, the great 
law of development of the 'Vestiges' is but Oken's idea of re- 
petition in the animal and vegetable structures, made to look like 
a true theory by an absurd accumulation of doubtful facts and 
premature assumptions, such as Oken has nowhere admitted. The 
latter has ventured to point out the principles on which creation 
7na7/ have proceeded, but has left the application of these princi- 
ples, in their detail, to sound observation and sober inquiry." 
The reader is referred to a former volume of the Journal for 
our opinion of the " Vestiges." E. 
