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To return to the Bhgne Animal. In the first vohime, which contains 

 Mainmiferons Animals and Birds, the same arrangement is preserved as in 

 the former edition, except of the quadrumana, or monkeys. New genera, 

 which have been recently discovered, are added in some of the other orders, 

 but these are not numerous. In the second volume, the arrangement of 

 the Reptiles is nearly the same as in the precechng edition, but there is a 

 considerable alteration in the arrangement of the various orders of Fish. 

 The fourth and fifth volumes comprise the Crustacea, Jrachnides, and 

 Insects, or what Cuvier denominates, Articulated Aiiimah. This part of the 

 work is greatly enlarged, and in many respects new. It is not written by 

 Cuvier, but by M. Latreille, who was also the author of the fourth volume 

 of the former edition, the occupations of Baron Cuvier not admitting 

 him to extend his labours to the animals in this division. As we shall par- 

 ticularly advert to whatever differences may occur between the first and 

 second editions of the Regne Animal, in the essays we are giving on the 

 Cuvierian system, in the Magazine of Natural History, we do not think 

 it necessary to enlarge upon them in the present notice. It may be useful 

 to some of our readers in the country, to inform them that French books 

 may be purchased in this country on more reasonable terms than formerly ; 

 the booksellers in London charge now one shilling for what is sold in 

 Paris for a franc or tenpence. The four volumes already published of the 

 Regne Animal sell for 28/r. in Paris, and 28*. in London. — B. 



Gue'rin, F.E., Membre de la Soc. d'Hist. Naturelle de Paris, de I'Acad. 

 Roy. des Sc. de la Rochelle, de la Soc. des Sc. de Lille, de la Soc. Lin- 

 neenne de Bordeaux, &c. &c. ; Iconographie du Regne Animal de M. 

 le Baron Cuvier, ou Representation, d'apres Nature, de I'une des Especes 

 les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figuree, de chaque Genre 

 d'Animaux ; Ouvrage pouvant servir d'Atlas a tous les Traites de Zoologie. 

 Paris. 8vo, in 25 livraisons with 10 plates each. Qfr. plain; 15/r. 

 coloured. 



We have here the commencement of a work of considerable interest to 

 the student in geology, as enabling him to obtain, at a moderate expense, 

 correct representations of all those forms of the animal creation which 

 have appeared to MM. Cuvier and Latreille to deserve the rank of 

 genera. To those distinguished naturalists M. Guerin has dedicated it, 

 and they have charged themselves with the general superintendence of his 

 production. They have undertaken to point out to him such subjects in 

 nature, for the whole of the figures are original, as are most illustrative of 

 each genus, or most worthy of being represented ; and each plate is sub- 

 mitted for their approval, previously to its publication. These arrange- 

 ments would alone have constituted a sufficient guarantee of the useful- 

 ness and fidelity of the work, and its possession of these requisites is fully 

 confirmed by an inspection of the first number, the only one that has yet 

 reached us. 



In the ten plates contained in the number before us, M. Guerin furnishes 

 us with upwards of fifty figures, which may be regarded as specimens of the 

 mode in which he proposes to illustrate the whole of the animal kingdom. 

 There are two plates of Mammalia, representing seven monkeys of the Old 

 Continent, the types of an equal number of genera of that interesting tribe. 

 The figures of the animals themselves are accompanied by those of their 

 skulls, and by such other details as the authors have judged necessary for 

 the illustration of the several groups. By means of these, the leading 

 characters of each genus, as well as the individual features of the species 

 figured, are rendered obvious to the eye. There is, however, one disadvan- 

 tage inseparable from the plan of giving a complete work methodically 

 arranged, the impossibility, namel}^, of figuring living subjects alone, and the 

 consequent loss, in many instances, of those characters of expression which 



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