6 JULY 1872, Page 23

Gutch's Literary and Scientific Register and Almanack for 1872 (Virtue

and Co.) has by an accident remained unnoticed for half the year for which it is intended. We can only say that it corresponds admirably to its title, being full of condensed and useful scientific) information, and the only suggestion for its improvement we can make is that the valuable article on astronomy should be supplemented by a careful account of the principal planetary situations, occultations, and eclipses for the year, which almost every almanaok gives, but whioh this specially scientific one for some reason omits, though it gives the zoological phenomena of each month with admirable succinctness,