Wiegmann's Herpetologia Mexicana. 335 



Wiegmann, Arend, Friedericus Augustus, Dr. : Herpetologia 

 Mexicana, seu Descriptio Amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, 

 quae Itineribus Comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe, et 

 Chr. Guil. Schiede, in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense 

 pervenerunt. Pars I., Saurorum Species amplectens, ad- 

 jecto Systematis Saurorum Prodromo, additisque multis 

 in hunc Amphibiorum ordinem Observationibus. Accedunt 

 Tabulae Lithographicae x., Novorum Generum Typos ex- 

 hibentes. Berolini sumptibus C. G. Liideritz, 1834*; Lon- 

 don, W. Wood, Tavistock Street. 



" The families are well characterised according to the 

 peculiarities of their outward form, and their osteological 

 peculiarities. The author has added several observations to 

 [on] the genera, and has described a great number of new 

 genera and species from all parts of the world. The coloured 

 plates surpass those of Wagler in accuracy, and give not only 

 a true copy of the scaly covering of the animals, but so repre- 

 sent their habit and physiognomy, that they appear to be 

 drawn after living specimens." (From a notice of the work in 

 the Philosophical Magazine, May, 1836.) 



In Nouveaux Me moires de la Societe Imperiale des Natura- 

 listes de Moscou, tome 3., 1834, are descriptions by Dr. Evers- 

 mann of 14 species, and figures of 10 of them, which he had 

 observed in various journeys in the Russian Empire : has 

 Wiegmann cognisance of these ? Wiegmann* s work would 

 be a treat to Dr. Riley: see VI. 262, 263. 



Kenrick, W. : The American Silk-Grower's Guide ; or, the 

 Art of Raising the Mulberry and Silk on the System of 

 Successive Crops in each Season. Small 8vo, 104 pages. 

 Boston, U. S. ; Barrett, and Russell and Co., 1835. 



Not any London publisher of works is named as a publisher 

 of this one ; but it is not very unlikely that it may be acquired 

 through O. Rich, Red Lion Square, London. The following 

 list of particular subjects treated of may enable any one, de- 

 sirous for information upon the general subject bespoken in 

 the title, to suppose more definitely how far the work may 

 suit him. 



History of silk : its antiquity and commerce. History of 

 the silkworm [this is very commonplace and meagre ] : 

 climate, shelter, &c. Mulberry : its history and uses. Mul- 

 berries of the kinds black, red, Japan paper, white, shining- 

 leaved, Tartarian, Dandolo [Count] or Morettia/ia, and the 

 Chinese or Morus multicaulis [to which one of the syno- 

 nymes adduced is M Morus culcallata ;" by which it is most 



