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Woburn Boar—New Publications, 
The above cut represents a Woburn Boar, owned by Mr. Charles Starr, Jr., of Mendham, New Jersey. His 
description and the breed to which he belongs, was received too late for insertion, and will appear in our next. 
We believe his stock are traced to the original breed of England. Mr. S. adds, his price for pigs delivered in 
cages in New York, is $25 per pair for Woburn’s, 3 months old, and $15 for crosses, on Berkshire’s and China’s. 
He has a few pairs of each now for sale. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Liebig’s Organic Chemistry applied to Physio¬ 
logy and Pathology. —The suggestion, that thought 
was a secretion of the brain, is much in accordance with 
the popular style of physiological inquiries, of the past 
and present day. The investigations that have been 
made on this most important subject, have hitherto 
been conducted too much, as if their ingenious but 
visionary and misguided authors were probing the 
principles of matter alone. They have been vainly 
striving to seek out and define the principle of life, that 
hidden mystery, whose inscrutable essence, equally with 
that of its great Author, can be known only by Himself, 
and in their efforts, have only bewildered their own 
minds ; like the alchymists in their idle pursuit of the 
principle of transmutation, or the geometricians, in 
their attempts at discovering the quadrature of the cir¬ 
cle, or the mechanics, that of a perpetual motion, and the 
geographers, in their bootless efforts to reach the poles. 
Liebig, like a truly great philosopher—the greatest of 
the present day he unquestionably is, on this and 
kindred subjects—very properly discards the chimerical 
hope of discovering the principle of life , and claims 
only for the legitimate objects of his philosophy, the dis¬ 
covery of the laws of vitality. With this object in view, 
he has gone forward and given to the world another 
volume, which, as we have not had time to peruse or 
further room to notice if we had, we must omit till our 
next. In the mean time we hope our readers will pe¬ 
ruse it for themselves, and are sure they will thank us 
for thus promptly calling their attention to the work. 
It is for sale at Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway. 
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Ge¬ 
ology, by Jas. F. W. Johnston. We are certain we 
have but to indicate the subjects above treated by Pro¬ 
fessor Johnston, to insure for it an immediate perusal 
by the farming public. It is a condensation from his 
enlarged “Lectures” on the same subject, affording the 
principles and practice therein contained, without the 
theory and reasoning on which they are based j and is 
suited to such as are less advanced in scientific agricul¬ 
ture than those for whom the larger work is intended. 
For sale at Saxton and Miles’s, 205 Broadway. 
TJre’s Dictionary of the Arts. —We have received 
the first 14 Nos. of this valuable work, republished by 
D. Appleton & Co., of this city. With many of the best 
scientific works of the present day, we are indebted to 
our transatlantic brethren for the original. This affords 
a full and comprehensive manual on the properties of 
most of the substances used by mechanics and manu¬ 
facturers, and the principles and practice of their most 
successful application, brought down to the present 
moment. No man of science, in the practice of the 
fine or useful arts, should be without it. 
Final Report on the Geology of Massachu¬ 
setts, by Ed. Hitchcock, L. L. D., of Amherst College, 
Northampton : J. H. Butler, 1841.—This is a splendid 
quarto of 2 volumes, containing about 1200 pages, with 
50 or more pages of plates, in addition to numerous 
illustrations. The free-hearted donor of this most 
acceptable work, will accept our very sincere ac¬ 
knowledgments. The above work was executed in 
accordance with a law of the state of Massachusetts, au¬ 
thorising a geological survey of the state, and a report 
thereon, with an especial reference to its Economical 
Geology , by which is intended, the nature of soils, their 
chemical composition and geological character, and means 
of improvement, all of which are conspicuously treated 
in these volumes. k 43y such well-timed liberality and 
discreet legislation, as induced the staie to authorise its 
geological survey with particular reference to the devel¬ 
opment of its internal wealth, and especially by insist¬ 
ing that the report be accompanied with such scientific 
remarks and principles as to secure the future benefits 
of these discoveries, she has done much to promote the 
progress of future wealth and useful intelligence within 
her borders. These are monuments, which, like the 
Appian Way, will hereafter indicate to the remote and 
far distant, future, that a generation here held sway 
