504? Literary Notices. 



besides, is interspersed with that which relates to their generic 

 and specific anatomical diagnostics. 



Bhind, W., M.R.C.S., Member of the Edinburgh Medical 

 Society, and Lecturer on Zoology and Geology : Excursions 

 illustrative of the Geology and Natural History of the 

 Environs of Edinburgh. A second, and greatly enlarged, 

 edition. 12mo, 146 pages, and more than 27 woodcuts, 

 and a map of the district. 1836. 3s. 6d. 

 " The descriptions are what they profess to be, — the result 

 of actual visits made to the particular scenes ; and this will 

 explain the frequent allusions to scenery and other phenomena, 

 as identified with particular seasons of the year, and other 

 adventitious circumstances. In many cases, however, the 

 facts and observations of repeated visits are all included under 

 one description." There is much and various interesting in- 

 formation in the volume: the greater portion relates to geo- 

 logy. The author has quoted as a motto a remark of Gilbert 

 White's, in which is the sentiment, that " investigation, where 

 a man endeavours to be sure of his facts, can make but slow 

 progress, and all that one could collect in many years would 

 go into a very narrow compass." One questions whether the 

 author has not made his work larger than he should have 

 done consistently with the spirit of this motto. Dr. Neill 

 has supplied the list of species of fishes. Captain Brown, 

 and E. Forbes, Esq., have supplied many of the localities 

 adduced of the " land shells " ( ? land, shelled, molluscous 

 animals). 



Art. II. Literary Notices. 



Sir W. J. Hooker's Figures and Descriptions of 'the Barer •, 

 or less known, Species of Plants of which Specimens are preserved 

 in his Herbarium : Icones Plant arum variorum vel minus cog- 

 nitarum ex Herbario Hookeriano selectarum. It has been 

 announced that Part i. will appear on Sept. 1. 1836. 



Taylor's Scientific Memoirs: A prospective notice of this 

 work is given in p. 279. It has been announced that Part i. 

 was published on Aug. 1., in 8vo, with 3 engravings: its price 

 is 6s. There is not much matter of natural history in it. 



A Familiar History of Birds, their Nature, Habits, and 

 Instincts : by the Bev. E. Stanley, M.A., F.L.S., Bector of AU 

 derley, Cheshire. 2 vols., with many engravings. 7s. This 

 has been published some time. 



Synopsis Generis Lupini, Auctore J. G. Agardh, Botan. in 

 Academia Carol, docente. Pag. lvi. cum tabida unica. Lundae, 



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