76 luiterary Notice, 



Harris^ Thaddeus Mason^ D.D. : Natural History of the Bible. 



I beg leave to call the attention of your readers to this interesting work, 

 by the learned Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D., of Dorchester, near Boston, 

 Massachusetts. Boston, 1820. The first edition was published in the 

 year 1793. The second is in 8vo, pp. 479. I am sure that it will give 

 great satisfaction to every one who studies it. The biblical student, espe- 

 cially, will be delighted with it. Few works exhibit greater proofs of learn- 

 ing and research. — J. M. Philadelphiay August y 1830. 



Bafinesque^ C. S., A.M. &c. : Precis des Decouvertes Somiologiques, 

 ou Zoologiques et Botaniques. Palerme, aux depens de I'Auteur, 

 1814. 



The name of Rafinesque is by no means unfamiliar to naturalists ; and 

 this little book testifies that it ought not to be. It makes known 190 

 species of animals and plants that this author had, as early as 1814, dis- 

 covered and described. These species, the names he has applied to them, 

 and short characteristic descriptions of them, are the contents of this 

 hook.— J. D. 



Anon. : Popular Lectures on the vertebrated Animals of the British Islands, 

 with an Appendix, containing a Sketch of Extinct Animals. 8vo, 

 96 pages. Birmingham, Wrightson, 1831. 



Contains much delightful matter, and will be farther noticed hereafter. 



Rafinesque, C. S., A.M. &c., Professor of Botany, Natural History, &c., 

 Philadelphia: Principes Fondamentaux de Somiologie; ou, les Loix 

 de la Nomenclature et de la Classification des Corps organises. 8vo. Pa- 

 lerme, aux depens de I'Auteur, 1814. 



This work, although printed in Italy, was received from Philadelphia, 

 where Professor Rafinesque now resides. The " Laws " are necessarily 

 familiar to all professed naturalists ; but we have never before met with so 

 welcome a synoptical digest of them, and we may some day present a 

 selection of them for the information of our juvenile readers. Somiology 

 is designed to express the science of organised bodies in one word, and 

 seems derived from soma, a body, and logos, a discourse ; and, without it, two 

 must be used, as Zoology and Phytology or Botany. Professor Ra- 

 finesque's "Laws," or rules, are 186 in number; and to these are subjoined 

 his divisions and subdivisions of Somiology, with a definition of each. — J.D, 



Rafinesque, C. S., A.M. &c. : Medical Flora, or Manual of the Medical 

 Botany of the United States of North America. 2 vols. 8vo, with 

 100 wood-cuts. Atkinson and Alexander, Philadelphia, 1828. 



These two volumes include above 500 closely printed pages, from which 

 we may eventually select some extracts useful to our readers. It 

 contains considerable contributions to critical and technical botany, and 

 which should by no means escape appropriation by botanic systemato- 

 logists. The wood-cuts are not equal to those of Britain, nor are they 

 improved by being printed in green. — J. D. 



Art. III. Literary Notice, 



Mr. Samouelle's new work. The Entomological Cabinet,is in the press, 

 and the first number will soon make its appearance. 



