18 JUNE 1831, Page 16

The second volume of the History of Chemistry, by Dr.

Tnont- sort, which forms a portion of ihe National Library, is a still more important and valuable contribution to scientitic history than the first. It contains the modern history of chemistry, of its progress, and its present state, in the various countries of Europe, more especially Sweden, France, and England. By an arrangement we cannot understand, the chapter on the history of chemistry in Sweden is omitted in the table of contents ; it occurs in the book in regular order as Chapter II.; while the history of chemistry in France, entered in the table of contents as Chapter II., is called in the book Chapter XL. There are seven chapters in the book, and but six in the table of contents.