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REVIEWS. 
Smith’s merits have just been recognised in his appointment to the chair 
of Natural History in Queen’s College, Cork, where enlarged opportunities 
of research will be afforded him in a field where he has already shown 
himself so able and philosophical an explorer. 
Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope. By John 
Quekett. 12 Plates, and 270 Woodcuts. Second Edition. 8vo. 
London: H. Baillere. 1852. Price 22s. 
Micrographia ; containing Practical Essays on Reflecting, Solar, and 
Oxy-hydrogen Gas Microscopes, Micrometers, Eye-pieces, &c., &c. By 
C. R. Goring, M.D., and Andrew Pritchard, M.R.I.A. 8vo. London. 
1837. Price 7s. 6d. 
The Microscope, its History, Construction, and Application. By 
Jabez Hogg, M.R.C.S.E. 500 Engravings. 8vo. London: Orr and 
Co. 1854. Price 7s. 6d. 
Micrographic Dictionary. By J. W. Griffith, M.D., F.L.S., &c., and 
A. Henfrey, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Parts I. to VIII. Plates and Wood- 
cuts. 8vo. London: J. Van Voorst. To be completed in Twelve 
Parts, Price 2s. 6d. each. 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. Edited by Edwin 
Lankester, M.D., &c., and George Busk, F.R.C.S.E., &c. Vol. I., 
1853; Vol. II., 1854. Plates and Woodcuts. 8vo. London: S. 
Highley. Price 17s. each. 
The Microscope, and its Application to Clinical Medicine. By 
Lionel Beale, M.D., &c. Plates and Woodcuts. 8vo. London: S. 
Highley. Price 5 s. 
The Microscope, and its Application to Vegetable Anatomy and 
Physiology. By Dr. Hermann Schacht. Second Edition, enlarged. 
Edited by Frederick Currey, M.A. Illustrated. 8vo. London: S. 
Highley. Price 6s. 
Within the last century so rapid have been the advances made in the 
science of observation, as to render it extremely difficult to trace the various 
stages of its progress. In a great measure this, more especially in later 
years, may be accounted for by the systematic mode in which observations 
have been carried on, as well as the great improvement which has taken place 
in those accessory instruments which the student has summoned to his aid. 
Among these, none now can vie with the microscope. Alternately frowned 
upon and petted, its claims have now been universally recognised as the 
indispensable companion of every true naturalist. Nor does its influence 
rest here ; the physician seeks by its aid to penetrate the hidden fountains 
of disease, of whose outward manifestations alone he would otherwise be 
