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Bibliographical Notices. 



Genus and Species. 



Tetragonolepis confluens ... 



dorsalis 



heteroderma <..... 



Leachii 



leiosomus..... 



monilifer 



ovali« 



pholidotus 



pustulatus ............ 



radiatus 



speciosus 



striolatiis 



Tetrapterus priseus ......... 



Thrissops foraiosus 



ssdmoneus 



Thyellina prisca 



Tinea furcata 



Vomer longispinus 



Zygaena dubia 



New genus 



N. S 



N. S 



N.S..... 



N. S. 



Formation. 



Lias 



Do 



Do. 



Do. 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do. 



Do 



Do 



London clay.., 



Green sand .., 

 OoEte ........ 



Lias 



Tertiary beds 



Eocene 



Molasse 



Eocene 



Chalk 



Tertiary beds 



Black schist 



Eocene 



Locality. 



Lyme. 



Gloucestersh. 



Lyme. 



lb. 



lb. 



Barrow. 



Whitby. 



Lyme. 



lb. 



lb. 



lb. 



Barrow. 



Sheppy. 



Kelheim. 

 Solenhofen-. 



Lyme. 



CEningen. 

 Monte Bolca. 

 Soleure. 

 MonteBolca. 

 Keret. 

 Aix. 



Greenland. 

 Monte Bolca. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Natural History as a Branch of General Education. By Robert Pat- 

 terson. Belfast. 8vo, 28 pp. 1840. 



There are perhaps very few persons who are not sensibly alive to 

 the objects of study which Natural History presents, and yet the pro- 

 portion of those who pursue any department of it as a science is but 

 small. We may probably find an explanation of this circumstance 

 in the operation of two causes. In the first place, the scientific pur- 

 suit of zoology or botany cannot be so profitably applied to the arts 

 by which wealth is accumulated as many other departments of sci- 

 ence, amongst which we may mention chemistry and the various 

 branches of natural philosophy. Men of science must live as well 

 as other people ; and it is the lot of a few only to be able to pursue 

 science independently of their means of subsistence. 



In the second place, Natural History has never occupied a pro- 



