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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES; &c. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
1. The American Journal •/ Science and Arts , conducted 
by Professors B. Silliman and B. Silliman Jr., and James 
D. Dana, New Haven, Nos, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 
17* (from the Editors.) 
We can only give the contents of the last number of this 
well-known and most valuable journal 
Contents: 
On the Indian Archipelago, (from the 1 at No. of the Journal of the Indian 
Archipelago)—Oa the Anomalies presented in the Atomic Volume of Sulphur 
and Nitrogen ; with remarks on Chemical Classification, and a notice of M. 
Laurent’s Theory of Binary Molecules ; by T. S, Hunt.—Upon the Influence 
of Color on Dew ; by Prof. John Brocklesby,—A new Method of extracting 
Pure Gold from Alloys and from Ores ; by C. T. Jackson, U S G. S.— Dis¬ 
covery of Tellurium in Virginia ; by C. T. Jackson, U.S..G.S.—Upon a pecu¬ 
liar kind of Isomorphism that plays an important part in the Mineral Kingdom ; 
by Professor Scbeerer.—English Prefixes derived from the Greek ; by Professor 
J. W. Gibbs.—On a New empirical Formula for ascertaining the Tension of 
Vapor of Water at any Temperature ; by J. H. Alexander, Esq.— Observations 
on some New England Plants, with characters of several new species ; by Ed¬ 
ward Tuckerman, A.M.—Descriptions of Shells found in Connecticut, collected 
and named by the late Rev. J. H, Linsley ; by Augustus A. Gould, M.D.— 
Results of Analytical Researches iu the Neptunian Theory of Uranus ; by 
Enoch F. Burr.—Caricography ; by Prof. Dewey.-—On Gutta Percha ; by Ed¬ 
ward N. Kent.—On Emerald Nickel from Texas, Lancaster County, Pa.; by 
Prof. B. Silliman, Jr.— Gn new Minetals from Texas, Lancaster Co,, Penn. ; 
by Charles Upham Shepard, M.D.—An Account of a Meteorite of Castine, 
Maine, May 20, 1818 ; by Charles Upham Shepard, M.D. 
In the 16th No. there is an article headed “ Geology and 
Mineralogy of the Malay Peninsula’’ extracted from the 
Mining Journal. This, with the exception of the first two 
sentences, is wholly made up of paragraphs extracted, with¬ 
out acknowledgement, from the paper on the Physical Geog¬ 
raphy and Geology of the Malay Peninsula which appeared 
in this Journal for February, 1848. The Mining Journal 
is one of those periodicals to which we have from the first 
sent this Journal without any acknowledgement having ever 
been received, this silent appropriation of our labours being 
the sole return for our courtesy. We observe too that the 
Nautical Magazine for some months published a succession 
of articles from this Journal as original. The practice may 
bs a common, but it is not a fair one. 
2. Madras Journal of Literature and Science, January— 
December, 1848 (from the Madras Literary Society and Auxi¬ 
liary Royal Asiatic Society) 
Contents : 
Geographical and Statistical Memoir of a Survey of the NeiUherry Moan- 
tains, under the Superintendence of Captain J. Ouchterlony. 1847« 
