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genera, the greater part of them new. It would be well if the author would 

 give specific descriptions, accompanied by good figures, of each of these 

 genera. {Oken*s Isis.) 



Posthumous Works of Lyonnet. — The anatomical treatise of M. Lyonnet, 

 on the caterpillar of the Cossus lignip^rda, has, from the period of its pub- 

 lication, 70 years ago, been considered as a production quite unrivalled for 

 minute and accurate research. The second part of this work was announced 

 during the life of the author ; but, at his death, the publication of it was 

 stopped. Our scientific friends will, therefore, rejoice to learn, that not 

 only this second part, corrected by Lyonnet himself, but also his researches 

 on the anatomy and metamorphosis of different species of insects, is about 

 to appear at Leyden, under the auspices of Dr. de Hann, the Conservateur 

 of the Royal Museum of Natural History. {Revue Bibliograph. des Pays- 

 Bos.) 



ITALY. 



Prize in Natural History. — The Academy of Sciences of Turin pro- 

 pose to give a prize, consisting of a gold medal, worth 600 livres, for the best 

 work, general or particular, upon the natural history of the states of the 

 king of Sardinia. The works may be either in Italian, Latin, or French, in 

 MS. or printed and published at Turin before the 28th February, 1829. 

 Memoirs, designs, specimens, &c., to be addressed, postage-free, to the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences. {Journal de Savoie.) 



Ornithology of Tuscany. — Dr. Savi, Professor of Natural History at Pisa, 

 is publishing an important work on the birds of Tuscany, entitled Ornitolo- 

 gia Toscana. The work is ably composed, and contains many original 

 observations. The author, however, has fallen into the mistake of being 

 too prone to interfere with established arrangements. He has, in this way, 

 extended the genus Sylvia, already too numerous, and divided it into nine 

 families, among which we find il/erula and Turdus ! {Bid. Un.) 



SWITZERLAND. 



Fishes. — The late celebrated Prof. Jurine was for many years employed 

 upon a natural history of the fishes of the lake of Geneva, which has just 

 been published from his MSS., with figures engraved under his direction ; 

 not as a separate work, however, but in the third volume of the Memoirs of 

 the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva. It is, like all the 

 author's productions, distinguished for originality and accurate science j and, 

 from the similarity between the Swiss fishes and our own, it well merits the 

 attention of our British ichthyologists. 



Another work on the same subject, but comprehending all the fishes of 

 Switzerland, has just been published at Zurich, by M. G. L. Hartman, and 

 is entitled Helvetische Ichthyologie. {Bui. Un.) 



SWEDEN. 



Notice of certain rare Plants in the North of Sweden. — M. Lestudius has 

 described, in continuation of a former memoir, a number of rare plants 

 found by him in Lappmark, the mountains of Pitea, &c. Among these we 

 find i?anunculus alp^stris, JEfieracium fuliginosum, ^Saxifraga maculata, S. 

 glabrata, &c. {Kongl. Vetens Kaps-Acad. Handlingar in Annales des Sciences 

 Naturelles.) 



Birds of Passage. — M. Eckstrcem has published an interesting paper on 

 Swedish birds of passage, with tables of their arrival and departure from 

 Soedermonland, kept from 1811 to 1825. The birds which arrive in autumn, 

 and depart in spring, are, jFVingllla linaria, Parus caudatus, Pyrrhula vulgaris, 

 -4'mpelis g^rrula, Lanius excubitor, and Emberiza nivalis. He mentions the 



