Oil Tra7isactions of the Linncan Society^ 4^c. 



guished zoologists, and twenty-four analytical notices of books. The plates 

 represent three rare species offish : the Polybrachione (polj/s, many, brachidn, 

 arm), a singular marine animal, discovered on the shores of the Caribean 

 sea, by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding ; a fossil javi^ in a fragment of slate; and 

 the J^elis planiceps, a new species of cat from Sumatra. 



Woods, Henry, Esq. Honorary Secretary of the Literary and Scientific In- 

 stitution of Bath : An Introductory Lecture on the Study of Zoology, 

 delivered there. Bath. 8vo, pp. 92. 



Jennings, J. : Ornithologia ; or. The Birds. A poem. London. 12mo. 



The notes are said to be well compiled, and to convey much valuable 

 information. 



Jardine, Sir William, Bart. F. R. S. &c. and P. J. Selhy, Esq. F. L. S. &c. : 

 Illustrations of Ornithology. Parts I. and II. London. Royal 4to, 

 Plates. 



Selhy, P. J", Esq. F. L. S. &c. : Illustrations of British Ornithology. Water 

 Birds. London. Folio. Nos. II. and III. 



Flora Medica ; containing Botanical Descriptions, Medical Properties and 

 Uses, Chemical Analyses, Preparations, &c., of the Medicinal Plants com- 



frised in the Pharmacopoeias of the Three British Colleges : also, an 

 ntroduction to General Botany ; a copious List of Botanical Terms and 

 Definitions; Lists of Indigenous and Poisonous Plants, &c. London. 

 In monthly Numbers, 8vo, each with Six coloured Plates. 25. Qd. 

 Nos. I. to VI. are published. 



Thompson, J. V., Esq. F. L. S., Surgeon to the Forces : Memoir on the 

 Pentacrinus {pente, five, crinis, hair; hair-like protuberances) europae^us, 

 a recent species of Star-fish, discovered in the Cove of Cork, July 1 . 

 1823. 4tO, 2 pis. 2s. 6d. 



Ker, John Bellenden, Esq., an eminent British Botanist, author of many 

 articles in the Botanical Magazine and Botanical Register : /ridearum 

 Genera cum ordinis charactere naturali, specierum enumeratione syno- 

 nymisque. Brussels. 8vo, pp. 158. 



Mr. Ker had arranged, in the Botanical Register and some other perio- 

 dicals, various genera of this very natural family. He has here brought 

 together the whole of his labours, and arranged /rideae under thirty genera. 



Martin, J. P. : A Geological Memoir of a Part of Western Sussex ; with 

 some Observations upon Chalk Basins, the Weald Denudation, and 

 Outlines of Protrusion. London. 4to, bds., 1 Map and 5 sectional 

 Plates. 1/. 



Stark, John, F. R. S. E. and M.W.S. : Elements of Natural History, adapted 

 to the present state of the Sciences. Edinburgh. 8vo, vol. 1. 

 This work is intended not only to explain all the terms in use in the dif- 

 ferent departments of natural history, but to give the generic characters of 

 the whole animal kingdom, and descriptions of the principal species. 



The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Vol. XV. Part II. 



London. 4to, 18 Plates. 2/. 

 Smith, Sir James Edward, M. D. F. R. S. &c. President of the Linnean 

 Society : The English Flora. Vol. IV. London. 8vo. 

 This great work is now completed; a distinguished botanist has pro- 

 mised to review it in our next Number ; and, therefore, we shall only here 

 record the remarkable coincidence of its estimable author having died on 

 the day of its publication. 



