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The Editor and various Contributors : The Analyst ; a monthly 

 Journal of Science, Literature, and the Fine Arts. No. 12. 

 July, 1835. ls.6d. 



This number, which contains sixteen additional pages, com- 

 pletes the second volume, and completes it in a very satisfac- 

 tory manner. We shall briefly point out those articles which 

 belong to natural history. Twenty-four pages are devoted 

 to a very interesting article by Dr. Hastings, " On the Salt 

 Springs of Worcester." The general reader, as well as the 

 ornithologist, will be gratified with the perusal of an article by 

 Mr. Neville Wood, " On the Habits of the Brake Nightingale 

 (Philomela iuscinia Sw.)" This interesting communication 

 details several new facts in the history of the nightingale. The 

 next article is by Mr. Edwin Lees, headed, " Sketches of 

 Insects, Pictorial and Poetical ;" and a more charming article 

 it has not been our lot often to meet with. It is written in 

 the true poetic vein. Next follows " Remarks on Phrenology 

 as applied to Education." We mention this, because the 

 science of phrenology, strictly? belongs to natural history, 

 and because the facts and inferences are such as involve the 

 happiness or misery of the human race, without excepting any 

 rank, pursuit, or calling whatever. Then follows an article by 

 Mr. Neville Wood, " On the Nomenclature of Birds," in an- 

 swer to Mr. Strickland. We have not the slightest doubt but 

 that the doctrine herein developed will ultimately prevail. 

 Among the critical notices, which are very ably conducted, 

 many works on natural history are reviewed : we would direct 

 especial attention to that of Swainson's Zoology in Lardner's 

 Cyclopaedia. The Analyst will in future be conducted in 

 Birmingham instead of Worcester, the latter town having 

 seemingly not yet risen sufficiently in the intellectual rank to 

 support such an undertaking. It is deserving of all encourage- 

 ment, and will, no doubt, receive it. — S. D. W. 



Morris, Rev. F. O., B.A. : A Guide to an Arrangement of 

 British Birds ; being a Catalogue of all the Species hitherto 

 discovered in Great Britain and Ireland : and intended to 

 be used for labelling Cabinets or Collections of the same. 

 8vo, 18 pages. 1835. Is. 6d. 



For every species there is produced a systematic name, an 

 English name, and a number, all printed in kinds of type 

 easily legible, and all disposed between a pair of double 

 parallel lines that bound them. The names, numbers, and 

 lines are printed upon only one page of each of the several 

 leaves occupied by the catalogue. The author's mode of 

 arrangement is shown by the series of the numbers. The 



