MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, &c. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
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1. The American Journal of Science and Arls , conducted 
by Professors 13. Silliman and B. Silliman, Jr., and J, D. 
Dana, Vol. Y. No, 14. 
Contents: 
Extract from a Discourse pronounced by M. Elie de Beaumont at the 
funeral of M, Alexandre Brongniart, October 9, 1847,-On the Production 
•f Light by Chemical Action ; by Prof. John William Draper, M D —Carl* 
cography ; by C. Dewey, D.D.— On the Parallelism of the Paleozoic 
Deposits of North America, with those of Europe ; followed by a Table of 
the Species of Fossils common to the two Continents, with indication of the 
pasitions in which they occur, and terminated by a critical examination of 
each of these species ; by Ed, de Vemeuil. Translated for this Journal, by 
Mr James Hall.—On the Reaction of Solid Carbonic Acid with Alkaline and 
other Bases; by Wm. F, Channing, M.D—Historical Notice of the Dis- 
covery of the Planet Neptune; by Professor Lumis, of the New York 
Univeisity —Notes upon the Drift and Alluvium ot Ohio and the West; b? 
Charles Whit tel sey.—A Memoir of Dr. Douglass Houghton ; late State Geo¬ 
logist, and Professor of Geology and Chemistry in the University of Mi- 
Chilian —The Sphere and least Circumscribing Cone ; by Prof. E. S. Snell. 
—Objections to the Theories severally of Franklin, Dufay and Ampere, 
with an Effort to explain Electrical Phenomena by Statical or Undulatory 
Polarization; by Prof. Robert Hare, M.D,— An Account of a Compound 
Achromatic Microscope, made by Charles A Spencer of Canastota 5 N, Y.; 
by Prof. 0. R. Gilman, M.D,—.On Chloroform ; by H. Silliman, Jr., A.M. 
• -Proceedings of the American Association of Gelogists and Naturalists at 
Boston, September, 1847.—I. Upon some of the Results of the Palaeontolo¬ 
gical Investigations in the State of New York.—II. Prof, Gale on the 
Natchez Bluff Formation.—Abstract of a Meteorological Journal for the 
year tS47, kept at Marietta, Ohio; by S. P. Hilbretb, M.D.—Scientic 
Intelligence. 
2. Transactions of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic 
Society . 
Contents: 
Preliminary Address.— Remarks on the Acquistion, Common Tenure, and 
Alienation of real property in China — N, tes on the Tsien, or Copper Cash 
Cbineie.—On the Mines of the Chinese Empire. 
3. A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese , See-, 
by Dr. Medhurat. 
4. An Enquiry into the proper mode of rendering the word 
God in translating the Sacred Scriptures into the Chinese 
Imguag by the same. 
Vol, III, No, II, February y 1849. 
