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Natural History of New York State-Continued.

to the sea-board, renders this department peculiarly interesting and valuable, from the large number of species which it embraces within its limits.

"2nd. Botany, in two volumes, by John Torrey. This part embraces full descriptions of all the plants of the State, with remarks upon their habits, modes of growth, the means of cultivating and improving valuable plants, and of destroying the noxious or troublesome. The work is illustrated by figures of about 100 of the most important and interesting species.

3rd. Mineralogy and Chemical Analysis, by Lewis C. Beck. The Mineralogical Department gives a full account of the Minerals and Ores of the State, their analysis, important uses, &c. ; together with an interesting account of the Saline and other Mineral Springs of the State, many of which have obtained so much celebrity. The work contains a large amount of practical information on every part of the subject.

"4th. Geology and Palæontology, by W. W. Mather, Ebenezer Emmons, Lardner Vanuxem, and James Hall. The Geological department, 6 vols., embraces a full account of the Primary and New York Systems, or of those from the oldest known rocks to the carboniferous or coal-bearing period, together with the new red sand-stone and tertiary. The work is illustrated by numerous interesting sections, views of scenery, &c., with woodcuts of more than 300 species of fossils characteristic of the strata. The rocks here described, together with their fossils, being little known in this country, and far more complete than the same formations in Europe, will render these volumes exceedingly interesting and important. This is the first work in the country where any systematic description of the older stratified rocks is given; and from the circumstance that these are better developed, and the series more complete, in New York than in any part of the known world, it forms the most interesting work yet published upon the popular science of Geology. The volumes on Palæontology contain full descriptions, with engraved figures, of more than 500 species of fossils, principally those found in the rocks intervening between the Primary and the Coal formation. The fossils of each particular rock or group are figured collectively, in the order of the series which they illustrate. The importance and interest in this portion of the Geological department is, if possible, superior to all the others; giving a large number of entirely new forms of these ancient denizens of our globe, with their geographical distribution and geological range.

5th. Agriculture, by Ebenezer Emmons. 5 vols.

Vol. I. Contains a general account of the soils of the State, their composition and distribution, and their relations to the underlying formations, with 15 plain and 7 coloured Plates, and an Agricultural Map of the State of New York. Vol. II. is devoted mainly to the composition of the inorganic parts of vegetables, with 26 plain and 14 coloured Plates. Vol. III is devoted partly to the description and illustration of the fruits of the State, and partly to the principles of Practical Agriculture. Vol. IV. contains 99 beautifully coloured Plates of the fruits of the state of New York. Vol. V. forms the Entomological portion of the work, together with descriptions of the more common and injurious species of insects, with 45 coloured and 3 plain 1 lates.

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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1842 to
1856. Eight Volumes, with Plates. 8vo. Philadelphia.
The Same, New Series. Volume I. for 1857. Annual subscription,
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Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 8vo. Boston.Vol. I. 1841 to 1844, pp. 222.-Vol. II. 1845 to 1848, pp. 272.-Vol. III. 1848 to 1851, pp. 396.-Vol. IV. 1851 to 1854, pp. 416.—Vol. V. July to Nov. 1854, pp. i. to 80. Price of each volume, 10s. Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History of Charleston, South Carolina. Part I. 1 Plate. pp. 24. Charleston, 1853.

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Rafinesque.-Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge. In eight Numbers. Containing about 160 Original Articles and Tracts on Natural and Historical Sciences, the Description of about 150 new Plants, and 100 new Animals or Fossils; many Vocabularies of Languages, Historical and Geological Facts, &c., by C. F. Rafinesque, A.M., Ph.Dr. &c. 8vo, pp. 212. Philadelphia, 1832.

Report to the New York Legislature, on the Publication of the State Work on Natural History. 8vo. Albany, 1850.

Romans.-A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida; containing an Account of Natural Produce of all the Southern part of British America, in the Three Kingdoms of Nature, particularly the Animal and Vegetable, by Bern. Romans. With 4 Plates. 8vo. New York, 1776.

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Ruschenberger.-Natural History, by W. S. W. Ruschenberger. 2 vols. 12mo. Philadelphia. Ruschenberger.-A Lexicon of Terms used in Natural History; prepared for Schools, Colleges, and Families, by W. S. W. Ruschenberger, M.D. 12mo. Philadelphia, 1850. half bound. 2s. 6d. Ruschenberger.-A Notice of the Origin, Progress, and Present Condition of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, by W. S. W. Ruschenberger, M.D., U.S.N. Read February 10th, 1852. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1852. Smellie. Philosophy of Natural History, by William Smellie. 18mo.

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2. NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN-ETHNOLOGY.

See also under " American Antiquities, Languages, and Indians.” Agassiz.-The Diversity of Origin of Human Races, by L. Agassiz (from Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, No. 160, July, 1850). 8vo, pp. 36. Boston.

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Bachman.-A Notice of the "Types of Mankind," with an Examination of the Charges contained in the Biography of Dr. Morton, published by Nott and Gliddon, by John Bachman, D.D. 8vo. Charleston, 1854. Bachman. An Examination of Prof. Agassiz's Sketch of the Natural Provinces of the Animal World, and their Relation to the different Types of Men, by the Rev. John Bachman, D.D. 8vo. Charleston, S. C., 1855. Bartlett. The Progress of Ethnology; an Account of recent Archæological, Philological, and Geographical Researches in various parts of the Globe, tending to elucidate the Physical History of Man, by John Russell Bartlett. 8vo. New York, 1847.

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Burmeister. The Black Man; the Comparative Anatomy and Psychology of the African Negro, by Hermann Burmeister, Professor of Zoology at the University of Halle. Translated by J. Friedlander, Dr. Phil. of Berlin, and Rob. Tomes, M.D., of New York. 8vo, pp. 24. New York, 1853. sewed. 1s. Caldwell. Thoughts on the Original Unity of the Human Race, by Charles Caldwell, M.D. Philadelphia, 1831. 2nd edition. 8vo. Cincinnati, 1852. Campbell.-Negro-Mania; being an Examination of the falsely-assumed Equality of the various Races of Men; demonstrated by the Investigations of Champollion, Wilkinson, Rosellini, Van-Amringe, Gliddon, Young, Morton, Knox, Lawrence, Gen. J. H. Hamond, Murray, Smith, W. Gilmore Simms, English, Conrad, Elder, Prichard, Blumenbach, Cuvier, Brown, Le Vaillant, Carlyle, Cardinal Wiseman, Burckhardt, and Jefferson; together with a concluding Chapter, presenting a Comparative Statement of the Condition of the Negroes in the West Indies before and since Emancipation, by John Campbell. 8vo. pp. 552. Philadelphia, 1851. cloth. De Gobineau.-The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races; with particular Reference to their respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind. From the French of Count A. de Gobineau; with an Analytical Introduction and Copious Historical Notes, by H. Hotz. To which is added, an Appendix containing a Summary of the latest Scientific Facts bearing upon the Question of Unity or Plurality of Species, by J. C. Nott, M.D., of Mobile. crown 8vo, pp. 516. Philadelphia, 1856. cloth. 8s. Garnett. The Ammi (My People) Sought and Identified with the Chinese, by D. J. Garnett. 8vo. New York, 1850.

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Guyot. The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in its Relations to the History of Mankind, by Arnold Guyot. Translated from the French, by C. C. Felton. 8vo. Boston, 1849. 7s. 6d. Jones.-A Candid Examination into the Origin of the Difference of Colour in the Human Family, by Charles Jones. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1822. Kinmont. Twelve Lectures on the Natural History of Man, and the Rise and Progress of Philosophy, by Alex. Kinmont. 8vo. Cincinnati, 1839. 12s. Meigs. Catalogue of Human Crania in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: based upon the Third Edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls," &c., by Aitken Meigs, M.D. 8vo, pp. 112. Philadelphia, 1857.

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Morton. Crania Americana; or, a Comparative View of the Skulls of various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: to which is prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species, by Samuel G. Morton, M.D. Illustrated by 78 Plates and a coloured Map. folio, pp. vi. and 298. Philadelphia, 1839. Morton. Crania Egyptiaca; or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography, derived from Anatomy, History, and the Monuments (from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IX.), by Samuel George Morton, M.D. 14 litho. Plates. 4to, pp. 68. Philadelphia, 1844.

"Les richesses craniologiques que vous avez été assez heureux de réunir, ont trouvé en vous un digne interprète. Votre Ouvrage, Monsieur, est également remarquable par la profondeur des vues anatomiques, par le détail numérique des rapports de conformation organique, par l'absence des rêveries poétiques, qui sont les mythes de la physiologie moderne, par les généralités dont votre Introductory Essay' abonde. Redigeant, dans ce moment, le plus important de mes Ouvrages, qui sera publié sous le titre imprudent de Kosmos, je saurai profiter de tant d'excellents apperçus sur la distribution des races humaines, qui se trouvent épars dans votre beau Volume.-Que de sacrifices pécuniaires n'avez-vous pas dû faire, pour atteindre une si grande perfection artistique, et produire un Ouvrage qui rivalise avec tout ce qu'on a fait de plus beau en Angleterre et en France."-Extract from a Letter addressed by Mr. A. de Humboldt to Dr. Morton, Jan., 1844.

"The magnificent publication of Dr. Morton, which far exceeds in its comprehensiveness, and in the number and beauty of its engravings, any European work that has yet appeared on National Varieties of the Skull, comprises nearly the sum of our information on the distinctive characters of the head and skeleton in the several tribes of the New World."-Prichard, Nat. Hist. of Man, 4th ed. ii. 502.

Morton.-Remarks on the Diversities of the Human Species; an Introductory Lecture, by Samuel G. Morton, M.D. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1842. Morton.-Hybridity in Men and Animals; in reference to the Unity of the Human Species, by S. G. Morton, M.D. 8vo. New Haven, 1847. Morton. Catalogue of Skulls of Man and the Inferior Animals, in the Collection of Samuel George Morton, M.D. 3rd edition. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1849.

Morton.-Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of Hybridity in Animals, considered in reference to the Unity of the Human Species, by S. G. Morton, M.D. 8vo. Charleston, 1850.

Morton. Additional Observations on Hybridity in Animals, and on some Collected Subjects; being a Reply to the Objections of the Rev. John Bachman, D.D.; with an Appendix and a Second Letter, by S. G. Morton, M.D. 8vo. Charleston, 1850.

Newman.-Natural History of Man, by J. B. Newman. 12mo. New York.

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Nott. Chronology, Ancient and Scriptural; being a Reply to an Article in the Southern Presbyterian Review, reviewing his Lectures on the Connection between the Biblical and Physical History of Man, by J. C. Nott. 8vo. Charleston, 1850.

2s. Nott. Two Lectures on the Connection between the Biblical and Physical History of Man, by J. C. Nott. Curious Map. 8vo. New York, 1849. 5s. Nott. The Physical History of the Jewish Race, by Josiah C. Nott, M.D. 8vo. Charleston, 1850.

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Nott and Gliddon.-Types of Mankind; or, Ethnological Researches based
upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of Races,
and upon their Natural, Geographical, Philological, and Biblical History,
by J. C. Nott, M.D., Mobile, Alabama; and Geo. R. Gliddon, formerly
U. S. Consul at Cairo. Plates. royal 8vo, pp. 738. Philadelphia, 1854,
cloth.
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The same, in 4to.
Nott and Gliddon.-Indigenous Races of the Earth; or, New Chapters of
Ethnological Inquiry: including Monographs on Special Departments of
Philology, Iconography, Cranioscopy, Palaeontology, Pathology, Archæology,
Comparative Geography, and Natural History, contributed by Alfred
Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aitken Meigs, M.D.; presenting Fresh In-
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Gliddon. Plates and Maps. 4to, pp. 656. London and Philadelphia,
1857. sewed.

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The same, royal 8vo.
Pickering. The Races of Men, and their Geographical Distribution, by
Charles Pickering, M.D. Coloured Plates. 4to, pp. vii., 447, and 12.
Philadelphia, 1848.

Pickering. The Geographical Distribution of Animals and Man, by Charles
Pickering, M.D. pp. 214. Boston, 1854. cloth.
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Redfield. Outlines of Comparative Physiognomy; or, Resemblances between Men and Animals, by F. W. Redfield, M.D. With numerous Illustrations. 8vo. New York, 1853.

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Remarks upon a Recent Work, entitled "The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation." Svo. Philadelphia, 1846.

Smith. An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of the Complexion and Figure in the Human Species; with Animadversions on certain Remarks made on the 1st edition of this Essay, by Mr. Charles White; also, Strictures on Lord Kames' Discourse on the Original Diversity of Mankind, and an Appendix, by S. S. Smith, D.D. 8vo. New Brunswick (N. J.), 1810. Smyth.-The Unity of the Human Race proved to be the Doctrine of Scripture, Reason, and Science; with a Review of the present Position and Theory of Prof. Agassiz, by the Rev. Thomas Smyth, D.D. 8vo. New York, 1850.

Transactions of the American Ethnological Society.-Vols. I. to III. Part I. 8vo. New York, 1850-1853.

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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

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1. Notes on the Semi-civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America, by Albert Gallatin.

2. An Account of Ancient Remains in Tennessee, by Gerard Troost, M.D., Professor of Chemistry, Geology, &c., in the University of Tennessee.

3. Observations respecting the Grave Creek Mound in Western Virginia, by Henry R. Schoolcraft.

4. On the Recent Discoveries of Himyaritic Inscriptions, and the Attempts made to Decipher them, by William W. Turner.

5. Account of the Punico-Libyan Monument at Dugga, and the Remains of an Ancient Structure at Bless, near the site of Ancient Carthage, by Frederick Catherwood.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

1. Hale's Indians of North-west America, and Vocabularies of North America; with an Introduction, by Albert Gallatin.

2. Observations on the Aboriginal Monuments of the Mississippi Valley; with Maps and Illustrations, by E. G. Squier.

3. View of the Ancient Geography of the Arctic Regions of America, from accounts contained in old Northern MSS., by Professor Charles C. Rafn, of Copenhagen. 4. Account of a Craniological Collection; with Remarks on the Classification of some Families of the Human Race, by Samuel G. Morton, M.D.

5. Sketch of the Polynesian Language, drawn up from Hale's Ethnology and Philology, by Theodore Dwight.

6. Grammatical Sketch of the Language spoken by the Indians of the Mosquito Shore, by Alexander I. Cotheal.

7. Present Position of the Chinese Empire, in respect to the Extension of Trade and Intercourse with other Nations, by S. Wells Williams.

8. Sketch of the Mpongwes, and their Language; from information furnished by the Rev. John Leighton Wilson, Missionary of the American Board, by T. Dwight. CONTENTS OF VOL. III.-PART 1.

1. The Creek and Cherokee Indians, by W. Bartram.

2. Archæology and Ethnology of Nicaragua, by E. G. Squier. 3. Rio Wanks and the Mosco Indians, by Juan Francisco Jrias.

4. A Choctaw Tradition, by J. G. Copeland.

5. The Aborigines of the Isthmus of Panama, by Berthold Seemann. 6. Antiquities of Cuba, by Andrès Poey.

Van Amringe.-An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of Man, by Lawrence, Pritchard, and others, founded upon Animal Analogies; and an Outline of a new History of Man, founded upon History, Anatomy, Physiology, and Human Analogies, by William F. Van Amringe. Svo New York, 1848.

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Virey.-Natural History of the Negro Race, by Jul. Jos. Virey. by J. H. Guenebault, with an Index. 8vo. Charleston, 1837. Wilson. Our Israelitish Origin. Lectures on Ancient Israel, and the Israelitish Origin of the Modern Nations of Europe, by J. Wilson. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1850.

3. MAMMALS, BIRDS, REPTILES, FISHES, MOLLUSCA, INSECTS, CRABS, WORMS, ETC.

Adams. Contributions to Conchology. 8vo. New York, 1849-52. 12s. 6d. Agassiz and Gould.-Principles of Zoology; touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement of the Races of Animals, Living and Extinct; with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools

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