248 Literary Notices. 



Anon. : Arcana of Science and Art ; or, an Annual Register of 

 Useful Inventions and Improvements, Discoveries and new 

 Facts in Mechanics, Chemistry, Natural History, and Social 

 Economy ; abridged from the Transactions of Public Socie- 

 ties, and from other Scientific Journals, British and Foreign, 

 of the past Year ; with several Engravings. Eighth Year. 

 12mo, 316 pages. 1835. 5s. 



Of its 316 pages, 112 are accompanied with scraps on sub- 

 jects of natural history. By our use of the word " scraps," in 

 this case, we do not mean that there are not, among the 

 matters selected, notices of some length and significance; but 

 we mean that the individuals of the collection are given with- 

 out a declared estimate of each, and without a notice of the 

 measure of its relation to the interests of science. They are 

 dislocated limbs, unanimated by a pervading spirit. 



Art. II. Literary Notices. 



A Manual on the Vertebrated Animals of Britain, by the 

 Rev. L. Jenyns, M.A. F.L.S. — This work is announced in 

 VI. 442. as in preparation for publication. The printing 

 of it has been commenced. It is the author's intention to 

 precede the publication of the Manual by a catalogue of the 

 names only of the species to be afterwards described. 



Illustrations of British Birds indigenous and visitant ', by Mr. 

 Fowler. — Coloured representations of British birds are about 

 to be produced in parts, each intended to include a family. 

 The first part will be devoted to the Sylviadae (warblers). 



Illustrations of British Birds frequenting Worcestershire and 

 the adjacefit counties, engraved from the original drawings by 

 R. Havell ; with observations on the habits of the birds by 

 C. L. E. Perrott. To be published in two-monthly parts, 

 size elephant folio, and completed in two volumes. Each part 

 to contain five plates and five pages of letterpress : price 14s. 

 plain, 21s. coloured. 



Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire, by Professor 

 Phillips. — The professor is preparing for publication a new 

 edition of the first volume ; and also the first edition of the 

 second volume, which is to contain numerous maps, sections, 

 and plates of organic remains. (Phil. Mag., March.) Among 

 the figures of organic remains, will doubtless be included those 

 of the crinoideal animals discovered by Mr. Gilbertson, ad- 

 verted to by him in our VII. 181. 



