Jenynis British Vertebrate Animals, 359 



A superficial sketch of certain objects of natural history in 

 the region treated of, occupies 30 pages at the end of the book. 



Clark, G. 7 7 ., Editor : The West of England Journal of 

 Science and Literature. To be continued quarterly. No. I. 

 January, 1835. Bristol. 8vo, 124 pages and some wood- 

 cuts. 2s. 6d. 



The first Number is high in character, and of the treatises 

 contained, these are of valid interest to naturalists : — Essay 

 introductory to Geology, by the Rev. W. B. Conybeare; 19 

 pages. " An Introduction to Zoology, in illustration of the 

 Zoological department of the Museum of the Bristol Institu- 

 tion," by the editor and others ; 25 pages. This is an out- 

 line of the modes of structures found in the different orders 

 of animals; the subject is to be pursued. " On the forma- 

 tion and growth of coral reefs and islands, by S. Stutchbury, 

 being a paper read before the Philosophical and Literary So- 

 ciety of Bristol;" 12 pages. 



'Jenyns, Rev. L., M.A. F.L.S. : A Systematic Catalogue of 

 British Vertebrate Animals. 1835. 8vo. Longman and 

 Co., London. 



" Whilst it offers a condensed view of the present extent 

 of our [vertebrate fauna], it will enable collectors to mark 

 off more readily such species as they possess or desire to ob- 

 tain. It is, however, principally intended to serve as a com- 

 panion to \_A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals, by the 

 same author,] in which will be given detailed descriptions of 

 all the species here enumerated." Of the Manual it is an- 

 nounced that it is M in the press," and that upwards of 600 

 species will be noticed in it, of which, " it is believed that at 

 least 60 are not embodied in any other work treating of the 

 British Vertebrata : " besides 70 of domesticated, naturalised, 

 and extirpated species. 



Bryce, James, Jun. M.A., F.G.S., &c. : A Manual of Zoology, 

 being a Tabular Arrangement of the [Genera of the] 

 Animal Kingdom. For the Use of the Students of Natural 

 History in the Belfast Academy. 1834. Small 8vo, 36 

 pages, and interleaved for additions. 



Vigors's system of birds has been adopted ; Cuvier's system 

 in all the other departments : " the new genera of Mammalia 

 and birds, established by the English zoologists since the 

 [publishing of the 1829, Paris, edition of Cuvier's Regne 

 Animal] are inserted at their proper places : they have been 

 chiefly collected from papers by Messrs. Vigors, Horsfield, 

 Gray, Bennett, Yarrell, Ogilby." " In teaching conchology 



