, 
496 
Elements of Chemiftry, with very ¢con- 
fiderable acuteneis, in a fmall ofavo 
pamphlet. His remarks are principally 
confined to the Nomenclature; they ex- 
pofe a variety of inconfiftencies on the 
part of M. Lavoifier, and well merit to 
be bound up with the chemical elements 
of that illuftrious and unfortunate man. 
Dr. CaRRick’s “ Difertation on the 
chemcal and medical Properties of the 
Briftol Hot-well Water” is ingenious and 
ufeful. . The author appears to have 
condutted his analyiis with care, and on 
the moft approved principles of modern 
chemiftry. The Prefident. of the Lin- 
mean Society has collected ‘from the ob- 
fervations of Mr. Joun ABBor, “* The 
Natural Hiftory of the rarer Lepidopicrous 
Infedis of Georgia,” in which country the 
Yatter gentleman refided many years. If 
the prefent magnificent work owes litile 
to.Dr. SMITH on the {core of original 
matter, it is entirely indebted to him for 
the ftyle and arrangement of the unine- 
thedized memorandums of Mr. Anror, 
-as well as for the fyfematic names and 
definitions ; which lat and neceflary ap- 
pendix was left totally unattempted by 
the author. It is with pleafure we ob- 
_ferve the fucceisful progrefs of the Lin- 
nzan Society: a third volume of their 
“¢ Tranjactions’” has appeared, in which 
much acute and laborious inveitigation 
is evinced on various fubje€ts connected 
with natutal hitory. We are feldom 
favoured with a workin which fplendour 
and ufefulnefs more happily unite, than 
in Dr. PATRICK RUSSEL’s ** Account of 
Indian Serpents, collecied on the Coajft of 
Coromandel,” In this publieationy fo 
honourably patronized by the Directors 
of the Eaft India Company, forty-three 
fpecies of ferpents, belonging to the three 
Linnean genera of Boa, Coluber; and 
Anguis, are reprefented by coloured draw- 
ings, and are accurately deferibed. Ex- 
periments and remarks on their feveral 
poifons are added, and the noxious clats 
of reptiles is diftinguifhed from the in- 
nocent: not mere than feven of thefe 
forty-three are furnifhed with poifonous 
organs; they pofleis two rows of {mall 
teeth in the upper Jaw, and are diftin- 
guithed from the reft by their fangs or 
canine teeth. Venomous ferpents of the 
fame fpecies, when made to bite each 
other, produce no farther effect than that 
of a fimple incifion. Mr. Masson, long 
refident at the Cape, as collector of rare 
exotics for Kew-garden, has publithed 
“ Stapelie Nove, or a Collection of feveral 
new Species of that Genus, difcovered in 
Half-yearly Retrofpect of Britifh Literature. 
the interior Parts of Africa.” The de- 
{criptions are preciie, and the plates are 
beautiful. Mr. FREEMAN has publithed 
the firft number of ** Selec? Specimens of 
Britifo Plents.”’ We fuperintended the 
engraving and colouring of the plates, 
which are taken from the drawings of 
two ladies, whofe names will be an- 
nounced to the public in a future num- 
ber, fhould the prefent be received with 
approbation: if contains five plates, alk 
ot which are executed with the utmoit 
chaftenefs and elegance. It muft not be 
omitted, however, that the work is ex- ~ 
tremely dear, (21. 2s. a number) and all 
‘the plants, namely, the /axifraga gra- 
nulata, faxifraga hypnoides, ferapias la- 
tifolia, and two plates of braffica oleracia, 
have been repeatedly reprefented before. 
Dr. Aixin’s elegant and popular little 
work, ‘¢ The Calender of Nature,’ hav- 
ing pafled through five editions in its 
‘original ftate, is now republifhed by his 
elder fon, Mr. ARTHUR AIKIN, with 
confiderable and very ufeful enlargement : 
for the purpofe of rendering the volume 
more valuable, this latter gentleman has 
enriched it with remarks from Pennant, 
from Bomare, from White, and with 
many obiervations of his own. It will 
not be deemed extravagant to fay, that 
there are few works in the Engitth lan- 
guage better ealculated than the prefent 
to promote its object, namely, to infpire 
young perions with a tafte for natural 
hiftory. .« The Botoni?s Calendar” is 
an ufeful publication: our indigenous 
plants are arranged in the natural order 
of flowering, fe that in any particular 
feafon of the year a young botanift may 
know to what plants his attention ought 
to be moft affiduouily directed. ‘Theau- 
thor in his preface apologizes for his par- 
tial notice of the grafles, and total omifficn 
of the clafs cryptegamia. 
Dr. PRIESTLEY’S ‘* Experiments and 
Objervatiens relative to the analysis of At- 
mofpherical air, Gc.’ are reprinted in 
England: the Doétor continues moft 
heartily attached to his favourite doctrine 
of phlogifton, which, it is well known, 
has been abandoned by moft of the phi- 
lofophical chemiits in France, England, 
and America... This work contains many 
curious experiments; the conclufion to 
be drawn trom them, will in all probabi- 
lity, afford fubje& for difputation be- 
tween the Dr. and his opponents, 
Weare pleafed to obierve, that the 
FINE ARTs 
end fo liberal an affiftance to the fciences : 
feveral works have already been,noticed, 
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