1 72 Dog-hreaking, — Catalogue of Insects in E, L C, Museum. 



admit sensibility in vegetables, but uses as a substitute for that term nervi- 

 motUity. Light he considers as the external agent, from the influence of 

 which vegetables draw the renewal of the conditions of their irritability, 

 or more generally of their motility. — Under the head of Scientific Intelli- 

 gence, a long extract is given from a valuable paper, by a correspondent of 

 ours, in Brande's Journal, on the Chinese Method of fattening Fish ; and 

 some other papers on Natural History, and a number on other depart- 

 ments of philosophy, complete the contents of this very interesting Journal. 



Floyd, Williamy Gamekeeper to Sir John Sebright, Bnrt. : Observations on 

 ])og-breaking. London. Pamph. 8vo, pp. 23. 2s. 6d. 



This little pamphlet contains a few short but excellent rules for breaking 

 in pointers or spaniels. Any dog that will hunt for game may be taught to 

 point by proper training ; should never be hunted where there are hares, 

 until they are perfectly steady to partridges ; should be taught to lie down 

 at command, and not to rise till touched by the hand. It is easy to check 

 dogs that are too resolute ; but, when overawed, they become difficult to 

 manage, and very liable to blink. Slight punishments, frequently repeated, 

 are more effectual than too much severity at once. All pointers should 

 drop when a bird rises ; not be allowed to run up to a falling bird. If the 

 word " down'* be given when a bird rises, he will soon take the rising of 

 the bird as the signal to drop; and, in time, the scent will be the signal at 

 which he will lie down, this being all that is wanted. Whatever is soon 

 learned by a dog is soon forgotten ; and it is only by time and patience that 

 an animal can be confirmed in the habits which it is wished he should 

 retain. 



Horsefield Thomas, M.D. F.R.S. L.S. & G.S. Member of the Royal Asiatic, 

 and of the Zoological Societies of London, and of the Imperial Academy 

 Naturse Curiosorum; Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 

 &c. : A Descriptive Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects contained in 

 the Museum of the Honourable East India Company, illustrated by co- 

 loured Figures of New Species, and of the Metamorphoses of Indian 

 Lepidoptera, with Introductory Observations on a General Arrangement 

 of this Order of Insects. London. 4to. Parti. ll.Ws.Gd. To be 

 completed in Six Parts. 



In the introduction, the author informs us, that his object is to describe 

 a series of lepidopterous insects, which form part of a general entomologi- 

 cal collection from Java, contained in the Museum of the Honourable East 

 India Company. The work will be conducted with a steady reference to 

 his Annulosa Javanica, and the HorcB Entomologicce of William Sharp Mac- 

 leay, Esq. " The plan of the former will be my constant guide, and the 

 comprehensive views detailed in the latter will afford the means of regu- 

 lating the arrangements suggested by the former, and of comparing and 

 correcting my mode of proceeding. Accordingly, my principal aim will be 

 to discover the natural affinities, and to follow them in the arrangement. 

 Wherever my materials are sufficiently extensive, I shall trace the series 

 through its whole extent, and endeavour to show, that in this department 

 also, the principle so clearly developed by Mr. Macleay, is exemplified in the 

 succession or chain of affinities returning into themselves, or forming circles. 

 In the series which will thus be submitted to my close examination, I shall 

 endeavour to discover and point out the typical forms which indicate the 

 subdivisions, and distinguish the groups. But, as it may be expected that, 

 in a local collection, many forms must be deficient, and the thread of affi- 

 nities often interrupted, I shall carefully notice these interruptions, with the 

 design of supplying them, as far as necessary, from other sources of inform- 

 ation. The analogies existing between objects of distant or of neighbouring 



