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nicated and read. The funds, though somewhat less than 

 last year, are still prosperous. The council expect to com- 

 mence printing the fifth volume of Transactions before the 

 next meeting ; but " they do not expect that it will be ready 

 for publication until the year following, on account of the 

 numerous tables and illustrations that will be required. " 

 There has been an increase in the number of members. 

 (From an authorised report in the West Briton of Oct, 26. 

 1835.) 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Notices on Works in Natural History. 



Cook, Captain S. K, R.N., K.T.S. F.G.S. : Sketches in 

 Spain during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832 ; con- 

 taining Notices of some Districts very little known ; of the 

 Manners of the People, Government, Recent Changes, 

 Commerce, Fine Arts, and Natural History. In 2 vols., 

 8vo, above 600 pages. London, Boone, 1834. 



The portion on natural history includes some particulars on 

 vegetation, on birds, and on subjects in geology. 



Jenyns, Rev. Z., M.A. F.L.S. Z.S. Ent. S., and of the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society : A Manual of British 

 Vertebrate Animals : or Descriptions of all the Animals 

 belonging to the Classes Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Am- 

 phibia, and Pisces, which have been hitherto observed in the 

 British Islands: including the Domesticated, Naturalised, 

 and Extirpated Species : the whole systematically arranged. 

 8vo, 590 pages. London, 1835. 135. 



The forthcoming of this work has been announced in VI. 

 442,443; VIII. 248. 359. 



Extracts from the Preface, The descriptions are, as far 

 as possible, original. In a large number of instances, they are 

 derived from recent specimens. The name of the author from 

 whom any thing is borrowed is, in almost all cases, subjoined. 

 When the accounts of what have appeared the best authorities 

 differ, the discrepancies are pointed out. 



By some it may be thought that the descriptions are too 

 long ; but when it is considered how many species have been 

 overlooked from their supposed identity with others ; how 

 many, some even of the most common occurrence, have been 

 misunderstood, and referred to others, which, perhaps, are 

 not inhabitants of this country ; and that these and similar 



