THE

NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

EDITED BY

EDWARD 1. SEARS, A. M., LL. D.

DECEMBER, 1866, AND MARCH, 1867.

VOL. XIV.

"Pulchrum est bene facere reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est.”

NEW YORK:

EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by

EDWARD I. SEARS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

CONTENTS OF NO. XYVII.

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I. PHYSIOLOGY AND THE LESSONS IT TEACHES.

1. Elements of Physiology. By J. MULLER, M. D., Professor of

Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Berlin.

Translated from the German, with Notes, by WILLIAM

BALY, M. D. New edition.

2. Mémoire sur la Structure élémentaire des principaux Tissus or-

ganiques des Animaux. Par M. H. MILNE EDWARDS, M. D.,

Archives générales de Médicine.

3. Recherches microscopiques sur la Structure interne des Tissus

organiques des Animaux. Par M. H. M. EDWARDS, M. D.

4. Leçons d'Anatomie comparée. Par M. CUVIER,

5. History of Animals. By ARISTOTLE, Bohn's edition.

6. De l'organization des Animaux, ou Principes de l'Anatomie

comparée. Par M. DE BLAINEVILLE.

7. An Elementarg Treatise on Human Physiology, on the Basis of

the Précis élémentaire de Physiologie. Par F. MAGENDIE,

Membre de l'Institute de France, &c., &c. New edition.

Translated, enlarged, and illustrated with diagrams. By

JOHN REVERE, M. D.

II. CUBA, ITS RESOURCES AND DESTINY

1. Histoire physique, politique, et naturelle de l'le de Cuba. Par

M. RAMON DE LA SAGRA.

2. Apuntes para la Historia de la isla de Cuba. Por D. J. MARIA

DE LA TORRE.

3. Essai politique sur l'île de Cuba. Par ALEXANDRE DE HUM-

BOLDT. Avec un Carte et Supplément, &c.

4. To Cuba and Back. A Vacation Voyage. By RICHARD HENRY

DANA, Jr.

5. Letters written in the Interior of Cuba between the Mountains.

of Arcana, to the East, and of Cuseo to the West, &c. By

the Rev. ABIEL ABBOT, D. D.

III. ROBERT BOYLE, HIS INFLUENCE ON SCIENCE AND LIBERAL

IDEAS..

1. The Works of the Honorable Robert Boyle. In six vols., 4to.

To which is prefixed The Life of the Author. New

Edition.

2. History of the Royal Society. By THOMAS BIRCH, M. A.,

R. S.

F.

3. Funeral Sermon on the Death of Honorable Robert Boyle. By

GILLERT BURNET, Bishop of Salisbury.

4. Histoire de la Chimie. Par M. FRED. HOEFER.

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