16 DECEMBER 1837, Page 19

The second volume of Dr. Ronene D. THOMSON'S British Annual,

for 1838, appears to us a considerable improvement upon the first. The publication now forms an immense collection of useful or curious facts connected with science and scientific matters; it contains a variety of scientific papers, made as popular, perhaps, as the subjects admit of, with a slight sprinkling of less abstruse articles, and an ahnanack adapted either to the common consulter or the purposes of the astromener. The Shack of the History and Present State of Geo,'ogy, by Dr. THOMAS TstemsoN of Glasgow, is the clearest account of the growth of the science we have yet met ; and it furnishes very good indications of its proofs, though scarcely to the extent we spoke of last week in noticing Mr. PHILLIPS'S Treatise en Geology.