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H. Brugsch, The Lament for Adonis, and the Song of Linos. 8vo. p. 33. Berlin.

Seyfarth has come out in the Leipziger Repertorium, with an exceedingly severe critique upon the Egyptian works of Brugsch, his Rosettan Inscription, and his Liber Metempsychosis, in which he taxes the author roundly with both ignorance and plagiarism.

J. Kaerle, Chaldee Chrestomathy, consisting of extracts from the Targums of Onkelos, Jonathan, and others, with a Lexicon, 8vo. pp. 299. Vienna.

J. Kossarski, Traditions of the East, from the Talmud and other Hebrew sources, with explanatory remarks. 8vo. pp. 198. Berlin.

T. Benfey, Handbook of the Sanscrit Language. Part I. Also with the title: Complete Grammar of the Sanscrit Language. 8vo. pp. 449. Leipsic.

Nos. 6 and 7 of Part 1., the Yajurveda, publishing by A. Weber, have appeared.

The first five chapters of the Vendidad: Corrected by C. Lassen. 8vo. pp. 67. Bonn.

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M. Schmidt, Treatise on Tryphon of Alexandria. 8vo. pp. 39.

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C. von Raumer, History of Education from the revival of Classical Studies to our times. Part III. Division 2. 8vo. pp. 247.

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Manuscript of the Queen's Court. A collection of old Bohe

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T. Babington Macaulay, has been elected foreign member of the Historical Class in the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich, and C. von Bunsen, Prussian Minister at the Court of Great Britain, Foreign Member of the Philosophico-Philological Class.

The French Academy in the Institute of France proposed for the year 1852, two prizes of 3,000 francs on the following subjects. 1. Inquire into the influence of charity in the Roman world during the first centuries of our era; and after having established how, respecting profoundly rights and property, it acted by persuasion under the character of a religious virtue, show by its institutions the new spirit with which it penetrated into civil society. 2. Inquire into the traces of the influence which the literature and genius of Italy exercised upon French letters in the 16th century and a part of the 17th. Two prizes of the same amount are proposed for 1853; one on the narrative poetry of the middle ages, another on the progress of letters and of mind in France in the former part of the 17th century, before the tragedy of the Cid, and the discourse of Des Cartes on Method.

H. A. Niemeyer, Extraordinary Professor of Theology in the University at Halle, died on the 6th of last December. He was born January 5th, 1802, was educated at Halle, in 1826 was appointed Extraordinary Professor at Jena; in 1829 succeeded his father as Extraordinary Professor in Halle. In 1840 he published his "Collectio Confessionum in ecclesiis reformatis publicatarum."

QUARTERLY SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

Composition of Chlorophylle.—The green matter which can be extracted from most plants by means of alcohol and ether, and which acts so important a part in vegetable digestion, was considered a pure homogeneous organic substance, and received the name of chlorophylle. M. Verdeil has discovered that this green resin is a mixture of a perfectly colourless fat, capable of

crystallizing, and of a colouring principle, presenting the greatest analogies with the red colouring principle of blood, which has not, however, until recently been obtained in a completely pure state. To isolate it he precipitates a boiling solution of chlorophylle in alcohol by a small quantity of milk of lime. The solution becomes colourless; the alcohol retaining the fat, whilst the lime retains all the colouring matter. This is separated from the lime by hydrochloric acid, and by the addition of ether, which dissolves the green matter, forming a coloured stratum on the top of the liquid. By evaporating the ether the colouring matter is obtained in a perfectly pure

state.

New Mode of procuring Nitrogen and Chlorine.-Maumené has observed, that a mixture of two equivalents of the nitrate with one of the chloride of ammonium, when fused together, yield nitrogen, chlorine, and vapour of water. The reaction is violent, but may be restrained by the admixture of an inert substance. It is recommended that 75 grammes of sal ammoniac be mixed with 25 of nitrate of ammonia, and 400 grammes of sand, all thoroughly dried. From this quantity of materials 26 litres of dry nitrogen and 5 litres of chlorine are procured.

Passive state of Meteoric Iron.-Prof. Wöhler states (as appears in the Lond. Edin. and Dub. Philosophical Magazine), the remarkable fact, that the greater part of the meteoric iron which he has had the opportunity to examine is in the so-called passive state; that is to say, does not reduce copper from the solution of the neutral sulphate of copper, but remains bright and unaltered on immersion therein. When touched with a piece of common iron, in the solution, the reduction of copper, immediately commences. The addition of an acid to the solution produces the same effect. If the reduced copper be filed away so as to produce a new surface, the iron again becomes passive.

This property of meteoric iron will not, however, serve as a distinguishing characteristic, as some undoubted specimens were not in the passive state.

Thalite and Thalia; a supposed new Earth.-A soft green mineral has been found diffused in the amygdaloidal traps of the northern shore of Lake Superior, in Minnesota, and which has been carefully examined by David D. Owen, whose account of it will be found in the May number of Silliman's Journal. Though not found in large masses, the mineral was so abun

dantly disseminated in some of these rocks, that the slightest blow of the hammer indented the rock, and left a whitish green mark from the easily-crushed particles of the mineral in question. It is essentially a hydrated silicate of magnesia, and what appears to be a new earth intermediate in its properties between magnesia and manganese. The colour of the mineral when pure is a pale yellowish green; its consistence and hardness are about those of wax. When heated in a matrass it gives off water. Treated with hydro-chloric acid, chlorine is evolved, and the greater part of its constituents, except silica, are dissolved. After the separation of the silica, and a greater part of the magnesia, there invariably remained a white mass tinged slightly of a reddish-yellow or flesh colour, having a tendency to darken by exposure to the air, and amounting to 18 or 19 per cent. of the mineral. When this is dissolved in just sufficient hydro-chloric acid to take it up, and afterwards boiled with an excess of caustic potash, 4.6 per cent. of alumina is separated, leaving about 13.5 per cent. of matter quite insoluble in that reagent. Of this, about 1.5 per cent. was peroxide of iron, and about 12 per cent. the new earth before-mentioned, slightly contaminated with magnesia. After being entirely freed from iron and magnesia, it has the appearance of powdered dried albumen.

This earth differs from alumina and glucina in being insoluble in caustic potash; from magnesia in producing coloured salts; in being only slightly soluble in ammoniacal salts; in the peculiar vesicular character of its precipitate with phosphate of soda; and in being precipitated by oxalate of ammonia. From yttria it differs by not giving a precipitate with oxalic acid in slightly acidulated solutions, and in being precipitated by the succinate of ammonia. It differs from zirconia in being soluble in nitric and hydrochloric acids after ignition; from the oxides of cerium in not turning of a brick red colour after being ignited, and in the colour of its salts, which are mostly shades of green or yellow.

From the quantity of chlorine evolved during the solution of this earth in hydrochloric acid, it appears that its base must exist in at least two degrees of oxidation-chlorine being disengaged in the same manner as in the solution of the higher oxides of manganese in the same acid.

Mr. Owen proposes the name Thalium for the base of this earth; Thalia for the earth itself; and Thalite for the mineral in which it is found.

Metallic Iron in Fossil Wood.-M. Bahr, in examining a