21^ Bibliographical Notices. 



Taken at Birch Wood froni the Cistus Helianthemum by Mr. 

 S. Stevens, Mr. Smith and myself, from the middle of June to 

 the middle of July ; also at Mickleham and Dorking off the same 

 plant. 



The Bruchus tibiellus, and the B. dehilis of Schonherr and Ste- 

 phens^s ^Manual/ I have not been able to obtain sight of; the 

 cabinet of the first author appears to be without them ; from the 

 descriptions I take them to be small varieties of the true B. Cisti 

 of Fabricius. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Anatomical Manipulation ; or, the Methods of pursuing Practical In- 

 vestigations in Comparative Anatomy and Physiology . By Alfred 

 Tulk, M.R.C.S., M.E.S., and Arthur Henfrey, A.L.S., M.Mic.S. 

 Van Voorst. 8vo. pp. 414. 



A SCIENTIFIC system of taxidermy and a guide for the zoologist in 

 his anatomical inquiries have long been wanted by the British natu- 

 ralist. We have hitherto had no work, professing to supply the re- 

 quisite information, of any authority. Our anatomists who have 

 written on those subjects have not been naturalists, and our natu- 

 ralists, who, conscious of the necessity of such a guide as the volume 

 before us, have assayed the task, have too often been ignorant of the 

 very foundation of their science, the knowledge of structure. 



The * Anatomical Manipulation ' of Messrs. Tulk and Henfrey is 

 exactly the work required. It is based in part on the admirable trea- 

 tise of Straus-Durckheim, than which a better groundwork could not 

 have been selected. The original portion of the volume is equally 

 excellent, and evidently executed with the greatest care and a 

 thorough practical knowledge of the subject. The treatise on the 

 microscope is full and clear, and in these days, when that instrument 

 has become indispensable to the zoologist, this portion of the work 

 is most welcome. The dissection and preservation of animal struc- 

 tures is entered into in the minutest manner, each system being 

 treated of separately, and with respect to the several classes of ani- 

 mals. Much that relates to the invertebrate tribes is new, and evi- 

 dently the result of original inquiries. The style of the whole is highly 

 perspicuous, sufficiently full, and never prolix. 



We rejoice to see such a work as this appearing among British na- 

 turalists, for other reasons besides its evident utility. We hail it as 

 one of the symptoms which have appeared of late of a better state of 

 things in the natural-history sciences in Britain. When the natu- 

 ralist takes to anatomical manipulation he is in the right path. The 

 discovery of the laws of structure, function and distribution, of affi- 

 nity and of analogy, are the great ends of natural history, and to get 

 at them we must pursue our researches anatomically and physiolo- 

 gically. The habits of animals and plants may be narrated but can- 

 not be understood without reference to those laws. The " Peter 



