374 Jesse's Gleanings in Natural History, 



To which are added, Maxims and Hints for an Angler. 

 8vo, pp. 320. London, Murray, 1832. 



A volume of very pleasing remarks, many quoted, more 

 original, on various individuals of the respective kingdoms 

 of beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, and plants. It seems 

 a transcript of the natural history note-book of the author, 

 who shows himself very observant of Nature, and especially 

 of her more readily observable creatures, and delightfully 

 susceptible of amiable impressions from them : he has, 

 too, the faculty of expressing easily all his sights and senti- 

 ments. The volume produced is an entertaining and po- 

 pularly readable one for those who are already disposed to 

 derive delight from natural objects. The author disclaims all 

 pretensions to having made his book a scientific one. In 

 this he is right; for it will be found at fault, here and there, 

 on points of science : the author is, perhaps, also prone to 

 proceed to inference on too slender a stock of facts. The 

 remarks on eels will excite research. The " Maxims and 

 Hints for an Angler, by a Bungler," are humorously pre- 

 scribed, and are doubtless by an expert practician : the author 

 refers them to a friend of his. The chapter on " Roman 

 Antiquities" found by the Thames at Kingston, which includes 

 an engraving exhibiting them, and also several pages to prove 

 that it was here, rather than at Wey bridge, that Caesar forded 

 the Thames, on quitting his encampment on Wimbledon 

 Common, will be interesting to the antiquary, but belongs, 

 perhaps, rather to history than to natural history. 



Jenyns^ Leonard, Rev., M.A. FLS., and Fellow of the Cam- 

 bridge Philosophical Society : A Monograph on the 

 British Species of Cyclas and Pisidium. From the Trans- 

 actions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 4to, 

 pp. 24, and 3 plates of highly magnified figures. Cam- 

 bridge, 1832. 



The object of this monograph is to digest afresh and add 

 to the number " of certain species of ' bivalve mollusca ' in- 

 habiting fresh water, which were associated by the older 

 .Linna?an authors either with Cardium or Tellina." The 

 author remarks that he has deviated from the arrangement of 

 Lamarck, and most authors, in referring them to two genera, 

 Cyclas and Pisidium ; but that he has done this in conformity 

 with the views of Pseiffer, as exhibited in his excellent Sys- 

 tematische Anordnung und Beschreibung Deutscher Land- und 

 Wasser-Sckneckefi, &c., published at Cassel in 1821. He re- 

 marks, however, that " although Pseiffer has the merit of 

 having first separated the above genera, his characters are 



