408 Analytical Notices of Books. 



a valuable manual for the student of Zoology, and will, when 

 finished, constitute as complete a system of the animal kingdom 

 as the present state of our knowledge will furnish. 



The numerous figures of animals, with which the present 

 volumes are illustrated, are executed in a superior manner. It is 

 indeed sufficient to observe on this point, that many of them are 

 engraved from the drawings of Major Hamilton Smith and of the 

 Landseers. Than this no stronger proof of their accuracy and 

 spirit can be required. 



From this general notice it will be evident that the work of 

 Mr. Griffith, though claiming at first view merely the character 

 of a translation of the Regne Animal, is in many respects more 

 adapted than that celebrated production of the first Zoologist of 

 the age to the use of the tyro. That it is well calculated to ad- 

 vance in this country the study of Zoology, is a still further re- 

 commendation of it to our favour. The mass of popular and 

 pleasing information which it contains is admirably qualified to 

 excite in the mere reader for amusement, a desire to become 

 more intimately acquainted with the beings, the biography of 

 which is found to be so interesting. For the knowledge required 

 for this purpose it will not now be necessary to turn to the works 

 of other authors ; the same volumes which contain the attraction 

 supplying also that scientific view of the animal kingdom, which 

 will be found amply sufficient to gratify his desires. As the work 

 proceeds, it is stated that its Zoological value will also increase, 

 M. Cuvier having promised to enrich it with such new facts and 

 discoveries as he may consider necessary to the more complete illus- 

 tration of his views. It will thus possess an additional advantage 

 over its original, and a still stronger claim upon the support of 

 the Zoologist and of the public. 



British Entomology; or Illustrations of the Genera of Insects ^ 

 Sfc. By John Curtis, F.L.S. Nos. xix. — xxi. 



The nineteenth number of this collection contains, 1. Licinus 

 depressus. 2. Chariclea. Delphinii^ the Pease-blossom Moth 

 of the collectors, an extremely rare insect, which forms the type 



