REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLII1. 



Atti della quarta riiraione dcgli Scienziati Italian! tenuta 

 in Padova nel Settembre del 1842. Padov. 1843. 



Congres Scieutifique de France (redige par Hepp). Strasb. 

 1843. 



The reports of neither of these meetings, nor of the Scandinavian, have 

 reached me. 



American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for 

 promoting useful knowledge. Celebration of the hun- 

 dredth anniversary. Philadelphia, 1843. 



In celebration of the centenary of its existence, the American Philosophi- 

 cal Society arranged, on the 25th May, a great meeting of its members and 

 many invited guests, at Philadelpliia. The session was opened by Dr. Lud- 

 lo\v with a short and appropriate prayer, after which Dr. Patterson gave the 

 history of the society at tolerable length. Besides this sitting, eight special 

 sessions were held from the 26th to the 30th May, which were wholly de- 

 voted to scientific communications. 



The following contributions to the knowledge of special 

 Faunas have become known to me : Fauna, der in 

 Krain bekannten Saugthiere, Vogel, Reptilien und Fische. 

 Von Heiurich Freyer. Laibach, 1842. (Fauna of the 

 Ukraine, &c.) 



This Fauna of the Ukraine, with the title only of which, I was last year, 

 acquainted, I have procured through the booksellers. Its author is Gustos 

 of the " Laudes-Museum" at Laybach. It is arranged according to Cuvier's 

 system, and gives under each name, first the systematic, then the German, 

 and lastly, the Ukraine appellation. At the end, a threefold list of all the 

 systematic, German, and Ukraine or Sclavom'an names is given. Fifty 

 species of Mammalia, including the domesticated, are mentioned; it is pos- 

 sible, however, that more may perhaps still be discovered among the Bats and 

 small Rodents. As remarkable animals, may be indicated the Bear, Lynx, 

 Alpine Hare, and the Chamois. 



Ueise im europaischen Russland in den Jahren 1840 mid 

 1841, von J. H. Blasius. Ister Theil. Keise im Norden. 

 Braunschw. 1844. 



One of the most interesting books of travels, and which exhibits with spirit 

 and intimate knowledge of the subject the nature of the country, as well as 

 of its inhabitants. Although the Fauna of Russia, it is said, will at a future 

 linn- In 1 subjected by the author to a special discussion, yet he has already 

 in these travels, and with that object in view, here and there referred to it, 



