398 Bibliographical Notices. 



pages, it is stated in conclusion, " that the details will be filled up 

 and completed in the zoological department of the county ;" and on 

 this account we should not perhaps have spoken so lightly of it, but 

 we know that there are so many parts of Ireland unexplored that we 

 do feel disappointed. A naturalist should be attached to the survey 

 during all its working and travelling time ; the expense would be 

 comparatively small, the information would be great, and without 

 this we can scarcely expect to see the " natural state" brought up 

 to the same standard with the other portions of this great and na- 

 tional undertaking. 



At the conclusion of this volume there is appended " Notices," 

 accompanied with plates ; these are very important. The Notices 

 are stated to be " published for the more speedy information of men 

 of science, in anticipation of the parochial memoirs, in proper con- 

 nexion with which the subjects will be ultimately described," and 

 the plates devoted to organic remains and to botany are beautifully 

 executed. This plan is also excellent, and might perhaps be made 

 to supersede entirely any temporary sketch of the natural state of 

 each parish, such as we have just noticed, until the natural history 

 of the whole county was prepared. They might also be so intro- 

 duced as to form a separate work, detailing the most interesting dis- 

 coveries among the natural productions of Ireland when the great 

 survey was completed, and thus be more useful and easily accessible 

 to the professed naturalist. 



Many of these notices have appeared elsewhere previously, and 

 are chiefly relative to botany and the lower classes of zoology. The 

 plates are three, devoted to fossil remains, the others to Calama- 

 grostis lapponica, Qarex Buxbaumii, Polysiphonia atropurpurea, and 

 P. affinis. 



The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Conducted by Professor 



Jameson. No. for January 1838. Edinburgh, A. Black and Co. 



8vo, 



January 1838. Zoology. 



I. Experiments on the development and growth of the fry of 

 the Salmon, from the exclusion of the ovum to the age of seven 

 months. By Mr. John Shaw, Dumlunry, Dumfriesshire. This is 

 one of the most important papers on the subject which has been 

 published since 1800; and although circumstances wherein any 

 animal is to a certain extent artificially placed must be viewed with 

 caution, the experiments now detailed are nearly as perfect as, under 

 the circumstances, they could be. Mr. Shaw was previously known 



