The British Medical Almanack, with a supplement, is a very
able and informing work, full of new or useful matters, dis- played with the distinctness resulting from mastery. In ad- dition to tables of statistical information, the work contains a chronology of medicine ; and papers on various matters im- portant to the practitioner,—especially on the laws relating to the profession ; on Dr. MARSHALL HALL'S discoveries in the nervous system ; on poisons; an account of the British Medical Association ; an epitome of the Pharmacopmia ; and an elaborate article on Prognosis, by the editor, WILLIAM FARR.
OLIVER and BOYD'S New Edinburgh Almanack, for 1838, pos- sesses all the characteristics of solid and multifarious information which distinguish the Scottish compilations of this class, with improvements on those of former years.
The Supplement to Every Almanaek, for the Year 1Fs:18, is a popular exposition, from the German, of that science by which we
are enabled to have any almanaeks at all—Astronomy. The nature and numbers of the fixed and variable stars are described, a table of constellations is given, and a chart of the planets, with directions for its use. The letterpress is clear. How far it will fulfil its purpose, must be matter of experiment—and the night is cloudy.
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