70S Brown's Book of Butterfiics, 



review department six English works are noticed, and three 

 French ones. 



The second number of the Bntomolomcal Mamzine is to 



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be published on Jan. 1. 1833. 



Brown, Thomas, Captain, F.R.S. L.S. &c. : The Book of But- 

 terflies, Moths, and Sphinxes ; with 96 Engravings coloured 

 after Nature. 18mo. 35. 6d. i on fine paper, 5s. \ and in 

 small Svo, 6s. : in cloth. Vol. I. (The work to be com- 

 pleted in two volumes.) 



This first volume we have not seen, which forms the 75th 

 of Constable's Miscellany ; but it is said the engravings alone 

 are cheap at the price of the volume. A correspondent, how- 

 ever, sends us incidentally the following remarks upon it : — • 

 " The peacock butterfly is evidently inaccurate in form, the 

 superior and inferior wings bear no natural proportion to each 

 other. The orange tip is given from a foreign specimen : why 

 should this be? It evidently bears but a slight resemblance 

 to the British fly. The large copper butterfly is very inac- 

 curately coloured ; and I think it is totally impossible for any 

 one to recognise the caerulean butterfly by the figure given : it 

 is intended for the male, which I find it to resemble but very 

 remotely, on comparison with about fifty specimens now 

 before me ; and it has no resemblance whatever to the female. 

 The silver stripe butterfly has the markings of the female, 

 which are very different from those of the male; but its 

 colouring bears no resemblance to that of any of the fritil- 

 laries that I have ever seen." 



Johnston, George, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, Edinburgh : A descriptive Catalogue of the re- 

 cent Zoophytes found on the Coast of North Durham. 

 Read at a Meeting of the Natural History Society of New- 

 castle upon Tyne, April 16. 1832, and published in their 

 Transactions. Newcastle, 1832. A quarto pamphlet of 

 38 pages, and 6 plates and 2 woodcuts. 



The following extract from the preface will best explain the 

 character of this work, which appears to be not purchasable, 

 except, of course, in the Part of the Transactions in which it 

 is included. It " embraces an account of such zoophytes as 

 t^says the author], I have found in Berwick Bay, a portion of 

 our coast about 25 miles in extent, bounded by Holy Island 

 on the south, and on the north by the bold promontory of St. 

 Abb's Head. The town of Berwick is situated almost exactly 

 midway between these points, so that my position is very 

 favourable for the investigation of the natural productions of 



