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genus Otisorex is proposed, differing from Sorex in the large and 

 prominent ears ; it rests on two small species, one northern, another 

 southern. The characters given are — "Ears large, prominent, beyond 

 the fur; nose elongated ; eyes distinct ; tail quadrangular; teeth 33*." 



A short list of the extra-limital species is given at the end of each 

 genus. 



The volume is illustrated with thirty-three engraved and litho- 

 graphed plates, but they in general do not equal the beautiful title- 

 page and the style of the other parts of the work. The engraving 

 workmanship is finely executed, of which the first two plates, the 

 lower figure on plate 6, and plate 1 6, are good examples ; but the 

 drawing of all the large animals particularly, and many of the others, 

 is bad and stiff. Plates 13 and 18, the latter a lithograph, should 

 not have been admitted. Notwithstanding these criticisms, we 

 wish well to this undertaking, and trust that some of our societies, 

 or public libraries, will import the work, its price excluding it from 

 the reach of many of our private zoologists. 



Icones Plantarum. By SirW. J. Hooker, K.H., &c. Part IX. 

 Bailliere, London, 1843. 



We rejoice to find, by the appearance of this, the first part of the 

 sixth volume, that Sir W. J. Hooker is determined to continue so 

 peculiarly valuable a work as that before us. It must be quite un- 

 necessary for us to enter upon its praises, as no botanist can now 

 require any further observation than to be informed of its appear- 

 ance. We will only say that Sir W. Hooker deserves the gratitude 

 of all botanical students for having boldly commenced it in so cheap, 

 and although cheap, so excellent a form, and at the same time so 

 complete in its execution. This part contains, if possible, even a 

 larger proportion than its predecessors of new and highly interest- 

 ing plants. 



Flora Italica. By A. Bertoloni, Eq. Aur., M.D. Bononise, 1842. 

 The first part of the fifth volume of this justly celebrated work 

 has reached us. As we have referred to it on previous occasions, 

 we wish only to record the commencement of another volume for 

 the benefit of our botanical readers. It contains the order Dode- 

 candria and a part of that of Icosandria (including in the former 

 the genus Euphorbia), and fully supports the high character acquired 

 by its predecessors. 



Books Received. 

 Transactions of the Berwickshire Naturalist's Club. Vol. ii. Part 1. 



8vo. 1842. Privately printed by the Club. 

 This commences the second volume of the Club's Transactions, 

 and contains an excellent address by the late President, Mr. Darling, 

 detailing the acts, &c. of the past year, together with one or two 

 papers of local interest ; among them a short notice of the discovery 

 of Smilacina bifolia in the woods at Howick and Kenwood. 



* Delphinus phoccena, orca, and Delphis are considered specifically iden- 

 tical in the North American and British seas. 



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