Works on Natural History, 373^ 



Art. IV. Catalogue of Works on Natural History, lately published , 

 tvith some Notice of those considered the most interesting to British 

 Naturalists* 



Anon.: First Report of the Proceedings, Recommendations, 

 and Transactions of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 8vo, pp. 112. York, 1832. 

 This pamphlet recounts the results of the scientific meet- 

 ing at York, in September, 1831, where and when, as is now 

 well known, numerous distinguished promoters and pursuers 

 of science assembled, and occupied themselves for several 

 days in reading essays, delivering lectures, and taking part in 

 scientific conversation. The pamphlet shows that these results 

 were most highly gratifying. A similar meeting, and, as the 

 Association matures, a more perfectly organised one, is to take 

 place annually, in some town, to be determined on some 

 months previous to the time of meeting. The meeting for 

 1832 is to take place at Oxford, and on the 18th of June. 



The objects of the British Association are : — " To give a 

 stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific 

 enquiry ; to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate 

 science in different parts of the British empire, with one 

 another, and with foreign philosophers; to obtain a more 

 general attention to the objects of science, and a removal 

 of any disadvantages, of a public kind, which impede its 

 progress." 



Anon.: Arcana of Science and Art; or, an Annual Register 

 of useful Inventions and Improvements; abridged from 

 the Transactions of Public Societies, and from Scientific 

 Journals, British and Foreign, of the past Year. Small 

 8vo, with several engravings. Fifth year. London, Lim- 

 bird, 1832. 



Out of above 300 pages of which this book consists, 120 

 are devoted to natural history, and in this part the cuts are 

 rather numerous : one of them is a creditable representation 

 of the whale's skeleton now under exhibition at Gharing 

 Cross, the scientific details of which were published in our 

 last Number, p. 214 — 233.; another exhibits a map of the 

 mole's mining operations, as deduced from the experiments, 

 and their published results, of Le -Court. The Arcana of 

 Science and Art constitute a book exceedingly eligible as a 

 manual for lads. 



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Jesse, Edward, Deputy Surveyor of His Majesty's Parks : 

 Gleanings in Natural History; with local Recollections. 



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