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teresting, especially the observations on the manners of the Jpte' 

 nodytes demersa^ which the navigators were compelled by the 

 calls of hunger to study during their forced stay in the Falkland 

 Islands. They also indicate several species of Albatrosses, and 

 many of Petrels, which they were unable to describe accurately 

 from the impossibility of procuring specimens, although the birds 

 repeatedly approached so near as almost to touch the vessels. 

 Notices obtained under such circumstances cannot of course pos- 

 sess sufficient exactness for the purposes of science, although 

 affording valuable information to the navigator and the general 

 reader. We are therefore under the necessity of passing them 

 by, to proceed to the other orders of animals, which must, how- 

 ever, from the unavoidable length of the present article, be de- 

 ferred until our next number. 



The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Vol. xv. 

 Part i 4to. pp. 334.— Plates ii. 



In Zoological interest, the present portion of the Linnean 

 Transactions is equal to any which it has previously fallen to our 

 lot to analyse. Again it contains but a single botanical paper, the 

 remainder of its pages being entirely devoted to the animal king-* 

 dom. If then our notice of its contents should on the present occa- 

 sion be more brief than usual, it is only because we are compelled to 

 limit its extent by the heavy arrear into which we have fallen. 

 We have indeed less hesitation in sketching merely a rapid out- 

 line of a work, which will necessarily pass through the hands of 

 almost every one of our readers, than we should have in curtailing 

 our notices of foreign transactions, to which occasional access can 

 alone be had. 



The papers relative to the Mammalia are two in number. The 

 first of them is a " Description of a new genus of the class Mam^ 

 malia from the Himalaya chain of Hills between Nepaul and the 

 Snowy Mountains : by Major-General Hardwicke." It refers to 



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