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THE
NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.
MAY-AUGUST 1847.
VOL. VII.
EDINBURGH:
W. P. KENNEDY, SOUTH ST. ANDREW STREET;
LONDON HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.;
DUBLIN: JAMES M'GLASHAN.
MDCCCXLVII.
CONTENTS OF No. XIII.
ART.
I. On the Whole Doctrine of Final Causes. A Dissertation.
By William I. Irons, of Queen's College, Oxford,
II. 1. The Naturalist's Library. Conducted by Sir William
Jardine, Baronet, F.R.S.E., &c. Mammalia, Vols. IX.
and X., containing the Dogs or Canidæ. By Lieut.-
Col. Chas. Hamilton Smith, F.R.S., &c. Edinburgh,
1840.
2. Histoire du Chien chez tous les Peuples du Monde.
Par Elzear Blaze. Paris. 8vo. 1843.
3. The Dog. By William Youatt. (Published under the
Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of
Useful Knowledge.) Second Edition. One vol. 8vo.
London, 1845,
III. 1. General Report of the Sanitary Condition of the Labour-
ing Population of Great Britain. Presented to both
Houses of Parliament.
2. Report of Health of Towns from Select Committee of
House of Commons,
IV. Lives of Simon Lord Lovat, and Duncan Forbes of Culloden.
From Original Sources. By John Hill Burton, Advo-
cate, Author of "The Life of David Hume." London,
1847,
V. 1. Punch, or the London Charivari. Parts 67 and 68.
London, 1847.
2. The Commissioner; or, De Lunatico Inquirendo. Dub-
lin, 1842.
3. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son. By
Charles Dickens. London, 1846-7.
4. Adventures of Christopher Tadpole. By Albert Smith.
London, 1846-7.
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54
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5. Vanity Fair. By W. M. Thackeray. London, 1847.
6. The Knight of Gwynne. By Charles Lever. London,
1846-7.
7. The Battle of Life. By Charles Dickens. London, 1846.
8. Mrs. Perkins' Ball. By W. M. Thackeray. Second
Edition. London, 1847.
9. The Comic History of England. By G. A. A'Becket.
10. Chambers' Miscellany of Entertaining Tracts. 15 vols.
Edinburgh, 1844-7.
11. Knight's Weekly and Monthly Volumes for all Readers.
London, 1845-7.
12. The Christian's Penny Magazine. 16 Nos. London,
13. The Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine. 10 Nos.
London, 1846-7,
VI. 1. Madagascar, Past and Present. With considerations
as to the political and commercial interests of Great
Britain and France; and as to the progress of Chris-
tian Civilization. By a Resident. London, 1847.
2. A Narrative of the Persecutions of the Christians in
Madagascar. By J. J. Freeman and D. Jones, for-
merly Missionaries in the Island. 6th Thousand.
London, 1840.
3. Madeira; or, the Spirit of Anti-Christ in 1846, as ex-
hibited in a series of outrages perpetrated in August
last, on British subjects and Portuguese Protestant
Christians. By J. Roddam Tate, Royal Navy. Lon-
don, 1847.
4. Tahiti.
A Review of the Origin, Character and Pro-
gress of French Roman Catholic Efforts for the Des-
truction of English Protestant Missions in the South
Seas. Translated from the French of Mark Wilkes.
London, 1844.
5. Brief Statement of the Aggression of the French in the
Island of Tahiti, &c. By the Directors of the Lon-
don Missionary Society. London, 1843,
VII. 1. A Treatise on the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether,
by J. Robinson, Surgeon-Dentist, &c. London,
1847.
2. Notes on the Inhalation of Sulphuric Ether, in the
Practice of Midwifery. By J. Y. Simpson, Professor
of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh. Edin-
burgh, 1847.
3. The Medical Periodicals, passim.,
VIII. 1. Recherches sur les mouvements d'Uranus. Par M. U.
110
137
169
CONTENTS.
iii
J. Le Verrier. Comptes Rendus, &c., Juin 1, 1846.
Tom. xxii. p. 907.
2. Sur la Planète qui produit les anomalies observées dans
le mouvement d' Uranus.-Détermination de sa
masse, de son orbite, et de sa position actuelle. Par
M. U. J. Le Verrier. Id. Id., 31 Août, 1846. Tom.
xxiii. p. 428.
3. Sur la Planète qui produit les anomalies observées dans
le mouvement d' Uranus. Cinquième et dernière
partie, relative à la détermination de la position du
plan de l'orbite. Par M. U. J. Le Verrier. Id. Id.,
Tom. xxiii. p. 657.
5 Octobre, 1846.
4. Recherches sur les
mouvements de la Planète Hers-
chel (dite Uranus.) Par U. J. Le Verrier. Dated
5 Octobre, 1846; and published in the Connaissance
des Temps, pour l'an 1849. Additions, &c., p. 1-254.
5. Planète de M. Verrier. Par M. Arago. This Notice
contains an account of the discovery of the planet at
Berlin by M. Galle, on the 23d September, with ob-
servations by M. Arago. Comptes Rendus, &c.
Tom. xxiii. p. 659-633.
6. Comparaison des observations de la nouvelle planète
avec la Théorie déduite des perturbations d' Ura-
nus. Par M. Le Verrier. Id. Id., 19 Octobre, 1846.
Tom. xxiii. p. 741.
vées.
Par M. Arago.
7. Examen des remarques critiques et des questions de
priorité que la découverte de M. Le Verrier a soule-
Id. Id. Id., p. 741-755. In
this article Mr. Arago discusses the claims of Mr.
Adams as advanced in the Athenæum by Sir John
Herschel, Mr. Airy, and Mr. Challis.
8. On the newly discovered Planet. By M. Encke.
Translated in the Lond. & Edin. Phil. Mag. for
March 1847, vol. xxx. p. 181,-from the Berichten
der Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Oct. 22,
1846.
9. An explanation of the observed irregularities in the
motion of Uranus, on the hypothesis of disturbances
caused by a more distant planet, with a determination
of the mass, orbit, and position of the disturbing body.
By J. C. Adams, Esq., M.A., Fellow of St. John's
College, Cambridge. Dated Nov. 12, 1846, and
published in the Nautical Almanac for 1851. (See
also Proceedings of the Astronomical Society, Nov.
13, 1846.)
10. Account of some circumstances historically connected
with the discovery of the planet exterior to Uranus.
By the Astronomer-Royal. From the proceedings
of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nov. 13, 1846.
Vol. vii. p. 121-145.