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 32 CATALOGUE OF NEW WORKS PRINTED FOR LONGMAN AND CO. WEBSTER -AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OE DOMESTIC ECONOMY; Comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with Housekeeping : as, The Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting them~A description of the various articles of Furniture, with the nature of their Materials- Duties of Servants— A general account of the Animal and Vegetable Substances used as Food, and the methods of preserving and preparing them by Cooking— Making Bread— The Chemical Nature and the Preparation of all kinds of Fermented Liquors used as Beverage— The various Clothing Arts, and Materials employed in Dress and the Toilette— Business of the Laundry— Description of the various Wheel Carriages — Preservation of Health— Domestic Medicine, &c. &c. &c. By Thomas AVebster, F.G.S. &c.; assisted by the late Mrs. Parkes, Author of •' Domestic Duties." 1 thick vol. 8vo. illustrated with nearly 1000 Woodcuts.— J« the Press. AVESTWOOD.-INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN CLASSI- FICATION OF INSECTS; comprising an Account of the Habits and Transformations of the different Families; a Synopsis of all the British, and a Notice of the more remarkable Foreign Genera. By J. O. Westwood, Sec. Ent. Soc. London, F.L.S., &c. 2 vols, illustrated with above 150 Woodcuts, comprising about 2500 distinct Figures, ,^2. 7s. cloth. WHITE'S COMPENDIUM OF THE VETERINARY ART; Containing Plain and Concise Observations on the Construction and Management of the Stable; a brief and popular Outline of the Structure and Economy of the Horse; the Nature, Symptoms, and Treatment of the Diseases and Accidents to which the Horse is liable; the best method of performing various Important Operations; with Advice to the Purchasers of Horses; and a copious Materia Medica and Pharmacopreia. 17th Edition, entirely recon- structed, with considerable Additions and Alterations, bringing the work up totheprosent state of Veterinary Science. By W. C. Spooner, Veterinary Surgeon, &c. &c. 8vo. pp 588, with coloured Plate, 16s. cloth. London, 1842. WHITE'S COMPENDIUM OE CATTLE MEDICINE; Or, Practical Observations on the Disorders of Cattle and other Domestic Animals, except tlie Horse. 6th Edition, re-arranged, with copious Additions and Notes, by W. C. SpooNEr., Vet. Surgeon, Author of a "Treatise on the Influenza," and a "Treatise on the Foot and Leg of the Horse," &c. 8vo. 9s. cloth. WHITLEY.-THE APPLICATION OE GEOLOGY TO AGRI- CULTURE, and to the Improvement and Valuation of Land : with the Nature and Properties of Soils, and the Principles of Cultivation. By Nicholas Whitley, Land-Surveyor. Svo. 7s. 6d. cloth. " The publication of this essay is very opportune. General attention is directed to the improvement of agriculture, and to the practicability of bringing into cultivation the extensive waste lands of the United Kingdom. Chemical analysis and artificial manures are daily more and more being called into play. Agi-icultural chemistry is becoming a profession, and doubtless great benefits have been supplied, and will accrue to the landholder and farmer from the employment of the labourer.s in that valuable science. Guano and Potter's composition, nitrates of potash and soda, phosphates of lime and carbonates of ammonia, &c. pure and mixed, in solution and friable, are questions well worthy consideration. Also how far the importation to a farm of foreign manures, whether guano from Peru, chemi- cals from the shop, bones from the shambles, fish from the strand, &c. may or may not be profitable. But the self- supporting, wherevei practicable, is the best system of farming, and to this end a knowledge of geology will greatly assist. The agriculturist must, in most cases, apply to the ciiemist for instruction in regard to the constituence of the particular soil, and to the character of its deficiency; but every farmer can be his own geologist; he may, at little trouble or expense, acquire sufficient acquaintance with geology to enable him to determine the formation of his locality, and to know whether the wants of the soil can be supplied from the subsoil, the subjacent, or the neighbouring rock. The study of the work before us would itself place him in high position in agricultural geology. It treats concisely and clearly of the derivation and formation of soil; the nature of geological formations, and of the soils resting on them; of the structure and elements of plants, and of the food they require; of the use of the soil andthe subsoil; of the structure and texture of soils, their mineral composition and chemical analysis, &c. &c. 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WOOD. -A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON RAILROADS, AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION in GENERAL; containing numerous Experiments on the Powers of the Improved Locomotive Engines, and Tables of the comparative Cost of Con- veyance on Canals, Railways, and Turnpike Roads. By Nicholas Wood, Colliery Viewer, Memb. Inst. Civ. Eng. &c. Third edition, very greatly enlarged, with 13 large Plates, and several new Woodcuts. ^. lis. 6d. cloth. YOUNG LADIES' BOOK (THE) : A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits. 4th Edition, with numerous beautifully executed Engravings on Wood. £. Is. elegantly bound in crimson silk, lined with imitation of Mechlin lace. ^VIl..■3U^;. d ocilLVTt, siiiKXKii steei;t, snovvhill, Lo>Di>N.