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most, with an unsatiable desire do take it, drawing into their mouths the smoke 
therof, through a pipe made of earth, making the nose serve for an Indian 
chimney; some for wantonness, or rather fashion’s sake; others for health’s 
sake; insomuch that shops are set up in a greater number than either ale-houses 
or taverns.”— Annates of Elizabeth. Paul Hentzner, who visited this country 
in 1598, confirms the above account, and concludes by observing that “they draw 
the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils, like 
funnels!” 1 — Cheltenham Looker-On, Jan. 20. 
Clinopodium mdgare. —This is certainly not a common plant. I do not 
remember seeing it at Saffron Walden, in Essex, nor have I met with it at 
Campsall, or in the neighbourhood of that place. I make no doubt of its ex¬ 
istence ,in both these localities, but it is not plentiful.— Edwin Lankester, 
Campsall, near Doncaster , Jan. 12,1838. 
GEOLOGY. 
The Principal Works on Geology. —Your correspondent Mr. Tatum has 
inquired (Yol. II., p. 481), what are the best works on Geology? As this ques¬ 
tion has not been answered, perhaps I may be allowed to refer him to a list of 
works on the subject of Geology in Professor Phillips’s Guide to' that science. 
If any of your contributors who are competent to the task would take that list 
and make a few remarks on those works which it would be most desirable for the 
student to possess, I am sure it would be acceptable to many of your readers. 
As the list stands in Phillips’s work, it is of but little use to a beginner. —Edwin 
Lankester, Campsall , near Doncaster, Jan. 12, 1838. 
REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Weather Almanac for the Year 1838. By P. Murphy, Esq., M.N.S. 
London : Whittaker Co. 43rd edit. W?, 
Although Meteorology is not included in the objects of The Naturalist, as 
specified in the title-page, yet the amazing sale of Mr’ 'Murphy’s Almanac, and 
the great importance of his discovery, if true, to the human portion of the animal 
kingdom, will, we think, justify the introduction of the subject at this time. 
The doors of Messrs. Whittaker & Co.’s house have latterly been guarded by 
armed men, editions of the work have been sold off in a few minutes, and two or 
three batches printed in a single day. Supposing that the fiftieth edition has been 
yol. hi.—no. xviii. z 
