Literary Notices. 415 



In 4to parts, 205. each. Part V. January ; Part VI. April. 



To be completed in 20 parts. 



The scope of this work has been noticed in VII. 285, 286. 

 480. 608. In parts v. and vi. there are supplied, besides a 

 proportion of coloured pictures of species of plants, and trea- 

 tises on the species which have been discovered in these re- 

 gions, in a proportion of the natural orders into which the 

 whole have been assorted, a plate, in part v., of Himalayan 

 fossils ; and in part vi., a " View of the Himalayan Mountains, 

 from the vicinity of Almorah, elevated 5000 ft ; " and figures 

 of Pitta brachyura, Eurylaimus Dalhousi^?, and Certhia goal- 

 pariensis, three " tropical forms " of birds " in northern India 

 and the Himalayas during the rainy season." 



Art. II. Literary Notices. 



The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology ', being a series 

 of dissertations on all the topics connected with human, com- 

 parative, and morbid anatomy and physiology, edited by R. 

 B. Todd, M.B. &c, and R. E. Grant, M.D. &c. To be 

 published in parts; part i. to be published on June 1. The 

 publishers, Sherwood and Co. 



The Linncean Society's Transactions, part ii., price 155., of 

 vol. xvii., has been recently published. — The subjects treated 

 of in this part are these : — A commentary on the 4th part of 

 the Hortus Malabaricus ; by the late Dr. Hamilton, p. 147 — 

 252. Memoir on the degree of selection exercised by plants, 

 with regard to the earthy constituents presented to their 

 absorbing surfaces ; by Dr. Daubeny, p. 253 — 266. Review 

 of the order Hydrophylleae [and of the genera and species 

 included in it] ; by G. Bentham, Esq., p. 267—282. On Di- 

 opsis, a genus of dipterous insects, with descriptions of twenty- 

 one species [and figures of sixteen of them] ; by J. O. West- 

 wood, Esq., p. 283 — 312. See a figure and some description 

 of Diopsis macrophthalmia Dalman, in our V.; the fig. in 

 p. 320., the description in p. 319, 320. and note *, and p. 591, 

 592. 



Sketches in Natural History ; by Mary Howitt. — " The 

 excellent writer tells us, in a short preface, that the pieces of 

 which the volume consists were written for her own children. 

 We should state that the subjects are illustrated by some 

 capital woodcuts ; and, altogether, the book is quite a bijou 

 for young people." (Berrow's Worcester Journal, April 16.) 



The known Species of Bears are treated of, and figures of 

 most of them presented, in numbers 215, 216. of the Penny 



