360 Literary Notices. 



in the Academy, the system of Lamarck is followed. A tabular 

 view of it was printed in [the author's Tables of Simple Mi- 

 nerals, Rocks, and Shells'] . . . and has not, therefore, been in- 

 serted into the present work." 



Burnett, Gilbert, F.L.S., Professor of Botany in King's Col- 

 lege, London : Outlines of Botany ; including a General 

 History of the Vegetable Kingdom, in two vols. 8vo, 1190 

 pages. Price 11. 145. illustrated with several hundred en- 

 gravings on wood by Branston and Wright. 



Much interesting matter has been gathered into these vo- 

 lumes, appertaining to the numerous species of plants treated 

 of in them : for the sake of this matter in itself, as connexible 

 with the individual objects to which it relates, we should 

 value this work : the author's system we have not weighed. 



Art. II. Literary Notices. 



OUTLINES of Comparative Anatomy, by Robert E. Grant, 

 M. D. &c. Part I., containing Osteology, Ligaments, and 

 Muscles, illustrated with 65 woodcuts, 1835, Bailliere, Lon- 

 don. A notice of the preparation of this is given in our VII. 

 656. It is noticed as published, and is highly commended, in 



The Entomological Magazine for April, No. XI., whose own 

 contents are of high interest : Newman, on the transformations 

 of insects ; Haliday, on parasitic Hymenoptera ; Walker, on 

 British Tephritites and Chalcidites ; and a long list of rarer 

 insects found on Hampstead Heath, by W. E. Shuckard, are 

 the richest of these. 



A Manual of Entomology, from the German of Dr. Her- 

 mann Burmeister, by W. E. Shuckard, M.E.S., with original 

 notes and additional plates. In 18 Nos., Is. each. No. I. 

 has been published, and is accompanied with 2 plates, illus- 

 trating the eggs, larvae, and pupae of insects. (Ent. Mag., 

 April.) 



A Guide to an Arrangement of British Birds; being a Cata- 

 logue of all the Species hitherto discovered in Great Britain 

 and Ireland, and intended to be used for labelling cabinets, 

 or collections of the same ; by the Rev. F. O. Morris, B.A. 

 Worcester College, Oxford, — in April was stated to be 

 " nearly ready." 



A work on The Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay, 

 by J. S. Bowerbank ; with numerous plates by J. D. C. 

 Sowerby, is in preparation for publication. 



