a 
Retrofped? of German 
the * Getreue Darttellungen und Befchrei- 
bungen der in der Arzneykunde_ ge- 
brauchlichen Gewachfen”—Faithful Re- 
prefentations and Deferiptions of the 
Plants ufed in Medicine,’® which were 
publithed by HaY¥ne, author of ** Ter- 
mini Botanici ; and the continua- 
tion of PLaNK’s * Icones Plantarum Me- 
dic. 
In Koutuause’s “ Delcription of 
poifonous Plants,’’ the new invented me- 
thod of taking impreffions of drawings, 
by means of marble plates, has been ufed. 
SCHLOTTHEIM’s * Merkwurdige Pflan- 
zen-abdriicke und Pflanzen- ver(teinerun- 
gen’’—Remarkable Impreffions and Pe- 
‘trifaGtions of Plants, with engravings, 
hikewife deferve to be noticed, as a valua- 
ble contribution towards an Antediluvian 
Flora, 
On mineralogy we find many excellent 
diflertations in the ** Annalen der Her- 
‘zoglichen Societat der gefammten Mij- 
neralogie zu Jena.”’"—Annals of the So- 
ciety inftituted at Jena, for the Cultiva- 
tion of every Branch of Mineralogy, of 
which a fecond volume has been publith- 
ed. A confiderable number of text. 
books and compendiums on this fcience, 
by the profeflors of the univerfities, made 
their appearance. The celebrated CHar- 
PENTIER, fuperinteadant of mines in Sax- 
ony,gaveus a ‘ Beytrag zur Kenninifs des 
Riefengebirges.”—Contribution towards a 
Knowledge of thofe in the Riefengebirg ; 
and MginEcKe wrote “ Uber Chryfo- 
pras,”’ on Chryfopras and the Foifils which 
ulually accompany it. To the. far-tra- 
velled SONNESCHMID we are indebted 
fora * Mineralogifche Befchreibung der 
berithmteften Bergwerk Riviere von Mex. 
ico.”’—Mineralogical Defcription of the 
moft celebrated Mines of Mexico or New 
Spain. In Fapricius’s ‘ Refultaten 
Naturhiftorifcher Vorlefungen.’’—Refults 
of Leétures on Natural Hifory—even 
thofe who have made confiderable pro- 
grefs in the ftudy of natural hiftory in 
general, will probably find fomething 
nominee the friends of microfcopieal 
inveftigations, SCHILLING provided 
a new work, entitled “ Der Mikro. 
fkop.”” 
Upon the whole, we may here remark, 
that the Germans begin more and more 
to rival foreigners, with refpeét to the 
plates for the iliuftration of books on na- 
tural hiftory. Befides thofe which: we 
have already mentioned, one bookfeller 
announces a work with more than 400, 
and another, one, with more than 300 
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copper-plates. BrcusTetn and Bivu- 
MENBACH likewife continued their “ Ab- 
bildungen Naturhiftorifeer Gegeafi ande.”” 
—Reprelentations of Obdjeéts of Natural 
Hiftory. 
ECONOMY. 
On taking a view of the lateft econo- 
mical publications in Germany, it might 
be fuppofed, from the great proportion Ruf 
works on Bere rive and the culture of 
the vine, that, after fo many excellent 
inflruStions on AG eee the economical 
writers think the former demand their at- 
tention- more than the latter. For, be- 
fides a great number of new editions, and 
continuations, by Bedecker, Blotz, and 
others, we find feveral new, either gene- 
ral or mixed, works, on Wiles ules A 
new  Ailycmeiner Garren-Magazin.’ 
General Horticuliural Mee: was on 
gun at Weimar. GorrHarDT, of Erfurt, 
who has long been known as a diligent cul- 
tivator of economics, prefented to the 
publica “ Rathgeber in der Obfbaum- 
zucht,’” in which he gives his advice re- 
lative to culture of fruit-trees.’ THeus, 
in his “€ Obitbaumzucht,’’ treated of the 
rearing of fruit-trees, according to theo- 
retical and practical principles; and 
GEIGER, ina work bearing the fame title, 
taught a new, eaiy, and une xpenfive mode 
of obtaining not only found fruit-trees, 
but likewife new kinds. 
Agriculture, however, was not neglect- 
ed. Several treaiiles appeared relative to 
flax, hemp, &c. Orchers wrote on fub- 
jects of a more general nature; as, for 
inftance, the abovementioned Gotthaid, 
‘© Uber die Befriedigung der iia. 
ftucke,”” or Advantages, “Sc. of Enclo- 
fures. MeLzeR added to the Defeription 
of his ‘* Sowing-Machine,”” an Account 
of a new-invented Machine for deftroyi:s 
Weeds ; and Tuaer, the -zéalous ad- - 
vocate of Englifh agriculture, continued 
his‘ Befchreibung. dé’ ‘neueflen’ wad 
xe) 
nu‘zlichften Aekergerathe,” in which he 
de{cribes the neweft and mo% ufeful im- 
plements of bufbindry 5 and likewife his 
‘© Annalen der WNiedersachifchen Land- 
wirth{chaft,”’ or Annals of the Rural Eco- 
nomy in Lower Saxony. 
The proper management of forefts wag 
likewife treated of with diligence by {eve- 
ral eminent writers. GATFTERER gave, 
us the 28th volume of his ‘* Forftarchiv,”* 
or Archive of Forefiry ; and SLevoicr 
a ** Sammlung neuer Beobacaungen zur Er- 
weiterung der Forftwi ffenfehaftsk unde, 
or ebricthion of New Obfervations anit 
Difcoveries towards promoting the Know- 
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