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    companied -by experiments ; on the practicability of introducing experimental philosophy into schools , at least those of a higher order ; on the

    general elementary works of Joyce , Gregory , Haiiy , Webster ; the more scientific treatises of Enfield , Cavallo and Vincej and the still larger ones of Gravesande , Desaguliers , Young and Playfair .

    The article of Chemistry displays its great importance to the arts and manufactures ; treats in order of simple and of compound substances ; of chemical apparatus , with a neat list of experiments illustrative of the principal discoveries ; and gives at some detail the more remarkable discoveries

    of Sir H . Davy , by means of his powerful galvanic battery . Of tKe elementary works on Chemistry , so numerous that it is difficult to make a selection , are particularized the Dialogues of Joyce , the Conversations of Mrs . Marcet , and Parkes ' s Catechism , for beginners ; Dr . Henry ' s Elements

    of Chemical Science , the Systems of Thomson and Murray , and Chaptal ' s Chemistry applied to the Arts ; to which might well have be $ n added , Messrs . Aikin ' s Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy applied to Arts and Manufactures , a most admirable and useful work .

    Next comes the extensive and most interesting department of Natural History . In the mineral kingdom , after a general view of the systems of Cronstedt , De Lisle , Brochant , Hauy and Brongniart , we have a more particular account of that of Werner , as

    given by Professor Jameson in his System of Mineralogy , and of Mr . Aikin ' s Manual , the work last published , and particularly adapted to persons entering on the science . In the conclusion a short account is given of the Plutonian and Neptunian

    Theories as maintained , the former by Hutton , Playfair and Sir James Hall , the latter by Werner , Saussure and Kirwan ; and reference is made to the " admirable Comparative View of the Two Theories , by Dr- Murray , " and to Mr . BakewelFs Introduction to

    Geology . We believe that these theories , and the zeal winch has been shewn for them , have arisen from confined views of particular districts , and that the more exteusive the re-

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    searches of scientific mineralogists become , the more they will be convinced that the phenomena of various districts will not receive a satisfactory solution from either of them : and we

    have often occasion to recollect the observation of a venerable friend long ago deceased , ( the late Dr . Rotheram , of Newcastle , ) who , when the conversation after dinner turned one day on

    Whitehurst ' s book , then just published , pointing to a fly upon an orange , said , " That fly has been working a long time upon that orange ; and if she has got her trunk half-way through the acrid oil contained in the cells on

    its surface , she has got deeper in proportion than all the mines on the surface of the earth * But suppose she has got into the insipid fungus which lies underneath , still she will be able

    to give us little information on the nature of an orange . As little , I believe , does our author know of the c original formation and structure of the earth / "

    Next follows a pretty sketch of JSotany , taken from Nicholson ' s En ^ cyclopaedia 3 and reference is made to the works of Mrs . Wakefield and Rousseau , Sir James Smith , Wildenow and Persoon , and to the writings of Linnaeus and Jussieu .

    In Zoology , the survey begins with a short account of the division of Aristotle , into viviparous and oviparous animals ; of Ray , according to the different structure of the heart and lungs y and of Linnaeus , who chiefly adopts the system of Ray with regard

    to quadrupeds and birds- The Author then gives a more detailed and extensive survey of the Linnaean distribution of the animal world , to which we must refer , aud concludes by recommending the Essays of Dr . Skrimshire , as a popular and instructive work , the Elements of Natural

    History , published at Edinburgh , Dr . Shaw ' s General Zoology and Zoological Lectures , the Zoography of Mr . Wood , the works of Edwards and Latham ; ( we are rather surprised at the total omission of Bewick , whose

    admirable works have , perhaps , contributed more than any other to the universal acquaintance of our youth with the zoology of their native country , ) and above all of Pennant , Buflfon and JLumseus .

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    Review . —Shepherd , Joyce and Carpenter ' s Systematic Education * 575

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/39/