Retrofpeét of German Literature—Eofter fair, 1801. 
which a great number of copies in the 
original French were fold at the fair, has 
even been enriched with additions by two 
German chemifts, Dr. Veith and Dr. Wie- 
demann of Brunfwick. «4 
Wolf, Crell, and Scherer’s periodical 
chemical publications go-on as ufual. 
The Jaft-mentioned gentleman, in con- 
junétion with the venerable Hermftadt, of 
Berlin, and with Wolf, has undertaken 2 
** Phyfico-chemical, Metallurgical, ‘Tech- 
nological, and Pharmaceutiea] Library,” 
from which fomething more than common 
may be expetted. mh 
SCHERER’S ** Grundifs der Chemie ;”” 
Elements of Chemiftry, (Cotta, Tubingen, ) 
contains a view of all the neweft improve- 
ments in the f{cience. 
In metallurgic chemiftry a capital work 
made its appearance, LamPapius’s 
** Handbuch des Hiuttenwefens ;’’ Manu- 
al of Metallursy.’ M. Lampadius is 
Profeflor in the Metallurgic Academy 
at Freiberg, and of courfe has an oppor- 
tunity of drawing his information from 
the fountain-head. His ‘* Handbuch zur 
Chemifchen Analyfe der Mineral Kor- 
per:’? Manual of the Chemical, Analyfis 
of Mineral Bodies (Freiberg, Kratz), con- 
tains much new and ufeful information. 
He is one of the moft a&tive promoters of 
the manufacture of fugar from turnips, 
and communicated the refults of his expe- 
riments on that fubject in a feparate pub- 
lication. 
In Natural Hiftory, properly fo called, 
the lait Eaiter-fair produced few theoreti- 
cal works of importance. We were hap- 
py to find, that there had appeared of 
Bertucn’s ‘* Tafeln der Allgemeinen 
Naturgefchichte,’"*". Tables of General 
Natural Hiftory, in all the three king- 
doms, the firft three numbers, which are 
drawn up with the greateft care, and with 
which Batich’s Elements go hand in 
hand. It is there attempted to give lu- 
minoufnefs and order toa {cience, in which 
fo many brightly illumined parts render 
the dark fpots the more obfervable. 
Three journals are exclufively dedicat- 
ed to the ftudy of botany by Schrader, 
Romer, and Ufteri. The bookéfeiler 
Rafpe, of Nurnberg, has begun an ‘* All- 
gemeines Botanifches Repertoriun’’—~Ge- 
neral Botanical Repertory’—of which 
LANGsTEDT is the editor. The ** Mono- 
graphy of the Aftragalus,”’ by Pautas, 
advanced as far as the 7th number, 
One of the moft interefting pro- 
duftions of the fair was the long de- 
layed «© Species Mufcorum Frondofo- 
+ 
559 
‘yum, Leipzig, 8vo. Barth,’’ by the late 
Profeflor Hepwic, of Leipzig, whofe 
cryptogamical refearches firft threw light 
on this part of botany. The prelent 
work comprehends all his refearches, and 
the plates are executed with the greatet 
care. 
Of the beautiful collection of rare 
plants at Herrenhaufen, ‘* Hortus Her- 
renbufanus, feu Plante Rariores que in 
Horto Regio Herrenhufano (one mile frona 
Hanover) coluntur, fol. Wendeland has 
publifhed the fourth number ; and Count 
von Waldfein and Paul Kitaibel the 
4-r1oth decades of rave Hungarian plants, 
(Plante Rariores Hengariz Indigeng de- 
{cripte et Iconibus itlutiwate, fol. Schaum- 
burg, Vienna). eR 
Sickler, a fon of the celebrated pomeo- 
logift ‘of that name, and editor of the 
© Qbftgartner,” Fruit gardener; (a 
journal, with cuts, of which twelve years | 
(each year containing twelve numbers, and 
each number embellifhed with three cop- 
per-plates, reprefenting various kinds of 
truit) have already been publiflied by the 
Induftrie-comptoir at Weimar,) has given 
us a** Gefchichte der Ob&kultur von den 
alteften Zeiten an”’—Hiftory of the Cul- 
tivation of Fruit-trees from the earlieft 
Times. 
On the *‘ Entomology and Helmintho- 
logy of the Human Body,” a new work, 
which recommends itfelf in particular by 
the beautiful execution and colouring of 
the copper-piates, has been begun by FGr- 
dens, a practifing phyfician in Hof, The 
firt part (4to. Grau, Hof,) has fifteen 
coloured plates. 
SHops’s “* Tortoifes,’*. and Wolf’s 
‘© Bugs,” ftill continue to be publithed by 
Palm, in Erlang. 
Fabricius, of Kiel,, has given us a new 
¢ Sy ftema Eleuteratoruin,”’ which wili be 
an agreeable piece of intelligence to every 
entomologift ; and Illiger, of Brunfwick, 
has commenced a journal exclufvely ap-~ 
propriated to Entomology :—** Magazin 
fir die InfeGtenkunde,”’ (Bruniwitk, 
Reichard.) 
To the already known and eftablithed 
metallurgical and mineralogical journals, 
M. von Hoff has added a new Magazine 
for Mineralogy, Geognofy, and Minera- 
logical Geography, publifhed by Roch, in 
Leipzig. In taking this retrofpeétive 
view, we could not help admiring the en- 
terpriing {pirit and perfeverance of the 
German bookfellers, who, in times fo un- 
favourable, had undertaken, and carried 
en, fuch expenfive works, 
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