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mode or modes. Every candidate is to forward his essay, 

 with a fictitious signature, and the testimonials, and a sealed 

 letter, including his real name, under cover, to the secretary, 

 17. Old Bond Street, on or before Jan. 4. 1837. 



Art. XV. Obituary. 



Died, on Dec. 28. 1835, William Turton, M.D., at Bide- 

 ford, Devonshire, aged 73, author of a translation of Lin- 

 naeus's Systema Naturce, of a Conchological Dictionary, of A 

 Manual of the Land and Freshwater Shells of the British 

 Islands, and of contributions to this Magazine ; and hence a 

 man who has distinguished claims on naturalists for grateful 

 remembrance, and for commemoration in the nomenclature of 

 natural history. Mr. Bean, the possessor of a most extensive 

 collection of shells, had awarded to his friend Dr. Turton, 

 while yet living, the compliment of naming a species of Fusus, 

 Turton/, after him. (See in VII. 493.) 



Died, lately, //. H. Goodhall, Esq., F.G.S., keeper of the 

 East India Company's tea-warehouse. He was a most 

 diligent collector, and bountiful distributor, of fossil organic 

 remains. A memoir of him is published in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, Feb. 1836, p. 326.-5. W. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Notices on Works in Natural History. 



Saull, W. D., F.G.S. F.R.A.S. of London, and Member 

 of the Geological Society of France : An Essay on the 

 Coincidence of Astronomical and Geological Phenomena, 

 addressed to the Geological Society of France. Pamphlet, 

 8vo, 30 pages. 1836. 



This short essay proposes to explain, on astronomical prin- 

 ciples, the occurrence, in the northern parts of the world, of 

 the remains of animals and vegetables which bear a resem- 

 blance to those now found only in warm tropical climates. 



Geologists have remarked the abundance of the remains of 

 these animals and vegetables in the strata of our island ; and 

 nearly all have been of opinion, that the degree of heat pre- 

 vailing at some former period must have been much greater 

 than that at present. To account for the change, some have 

 supposed that the pole and axis of the earth were, at some 



