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cuts should be "different, all original, and from the rare or 

 new species." This promise, we regret to say, has not been 

 very strictly fulfilled. There are, it is true, about a dozen new 

 cuts ; but these do not represent the subjects which most 

 needed illustration ; nor have they, we suspect, much claim 

 to originality : unless we greatly mistake, they have been (to 

 use the language of the trade) " found " by the bookseller; 

 that is, copied from other works. It is but justice to say, 

 that the author has, as we suggested, added an index to the 

 second edition, for which we thank him. With these excep- 

 tions, the new edition differs little from the old ; and, in our 

 judgment, reflects discredit, either on the author or the pub- 

 lisher, if not on both. — A. R. Y. 



Maund, B., F.L.S., and Holl, W., F.G.S., conductors, as- 

 sisted by several eminent scientific men : The Naturalist; 

 illustrative of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral King- 

 doms. To be continued monthly. No. L was published 

 for August, 1836 ; consists of " a highly finished coloured 

 engraving," and 48 pages of text, that include 8 woodcuts ; 

 and its price is, in 8vo, 2s. ; in 4to, 2s. 6d. 



The following notice of the contents of No. I. will indicate 

 the character of it, and partly the intended one of the work; — 



A History of the Swiftfoot (Cursorius isabellinus), and of 

 the genus, as to characters and habits. By Shirley Palmer, 

 M. D. Two woodcuts and a coloured portrait of the C. isa- 

 bellinus are supplied. The description is made from a finely 

 preserved specimen of an adult that is in the Birmingham 

 Museum of Natural History. The author of the history has 

 proposed " to give occasionally, in The Naturalist, a sketch 

 of some of the rarer or more curiously constructed animals ; " 

 but " with the view rather of eliciting and collecting, than of 

 communicating, information," 



The Study of Nature. No. I : The Reciprocal Influence 

 of the Natural Sciences. By R- Mudie. The primary sub- 

 jective views presented may be discerned in what follows : — 

 " Let any one cast a glance of knowledge over the globe 

 which we inhabit, and mark the various productions of its 

 different hemispheres, its different latitudes, its different ele- 

 vations, its different surfaces and soils, and its different alter- 

 nations of land and of water ; and he will not fail to see that 

 some principle which will meet all those differences is abso- 

 lutely necessary, if his contemplation is to do any thing else 

 than torment him with the sting of his own ignorance." It 

 is the " general attention to the whole which is requisite, not 

 only to the pleasure and profit of a well-cultivated mind in 



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