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Remarks on the extravagant Price of Works on Natural 

 History. — My paper on this subject (IX. 213.) having 

 elicited. a request from a correspondent, at p. 266., for more 

 particulars, I shall submit a few instances of the reduced 

 price of works for his inspection. Leach's Zoological Mis- 

 cellany, 2 vols, royal 8vo, was published at Si. : it may now 

 be had for 305. The Zoology of North America, by Swainson 

 and Richardson, published under the patronage of government, 

 vol. ii., the birds, cost originally 4/. 4s., and may now be had 

 for 21. The Transactions of the Horticultural Society of Lon- 

 don, 9 vols. 4to, uncut, may be purchased for 111. lis.: ori- 

 ginal cost 40/. Some of the first volumes of the Linncean 

 Transactions I have seen advertised at 5s. each. Stephens's 

 Illustrations of British Entomology Mr. Conway may now 

 procure for 4Z. 105. The original cost, if he prefers it, will be 

 c 2l. 10s. more; for which he may procure Jardine's truly valu- 

 able edition of Wilson's American Ornithology. The original 

 cost of this edition was' 6/. 6s. ; and the original cost of the 

 original edition was 351. : so that, you see, original books are 

 not always the most desirable. Plantes Equinoxiales, atlas 

 fol., 2 vols., 144 plates, 47. 105. This work of Humboldt and 

 Bonpland was published at 21/. All these, and many more, 

 may be had at the above prices. 



Since my former notice of works on zoology deserving of 

 notice (IX. 213.), several others have appeared. Eyton's 

 continuation of Bewick contains some good woodcuts ; but, as 

 for the rest, it is worth nothing : his representation of the 

 fire-crowned kinglet is as bad as Bewick's of the gold-crowned 

 kinglet. The British Song Birds is an interesting work ; and, 

 though it contains little that is new, yet it puts us in possession 

 of what has long been known, in a portable form. A third 

 edition of the Wanderings of Waterton (who, with the ex- 

 ception of Wilson and Audubon, is perhaps the first practical 

 ornithologist of the present century) has appeared, price 6s. 

 Macgillivray has published an interesting work on the Preyers 

 of Britain, price 95. The Cyclopaedia of Natural History, 

 edited by Partington, verges towards the conclusion of the 

 third and last volume. This might have been a first-rate 



