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Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum^ late the Allan, formerly the 

 Tuns tall or Wy cliff e Museum. By G. Townshend Fox, Esq. 

 F.L.S., Sfc. Svo. pp. xxii. 8f 312. Plates. Newcastle, 1827. 



A catalogue of the contents of a miscellaneous, but respectable, 

 provincial collection, the Managers of which appear to be actively 

 engaged in promoting its increase. Among the zoological lists, 

 "which occupy the larger portion of the volume, that of the British 

 Birds is the most extensive ; and it is rendered valuable by the 

 practical information conveyed by the notes appended to each 

 species, which are chiefly extracted from the manuscripts of Mr. 

 Allan. The foreign lists are generally scanty. The only zoological 

 plates exhibit figures of the Wombat^ and of the Tetrao medius, 

 Meyer, In the account of the former animal the editor condenses 

 the greater part of the information which we possess relative to 

 that confused species. His notes, which are interspersed through- 

 out the volume, are instructive, and, in one instance, while treat- 

 ing of the very interesting question relative to the nature of the 

 Unicorn, extend almost to the length of an Essay. Like the col- 

 lection itself, its illustration by Mr. Fox is highly creditable. 



A Manual of Comparative Anatomy , translated from the German 

 of J, F. Blumenhach, with additional Notes by TV. Lawrence, 

 F.R.S., Sfc. Second Edition, revised and corrected by William. 

 CouLSON, Demonstrator of Anatomy, Sfc. Svo. pp, liv. 6^ 380. 

 pi. viii. London 1827. 



The second English edition of an elementary work universally 

 and justly esteemed. To the first translation into our language 

 were appended by the excellent anatomist who edited it illustra- 

 tions and notes almost equal in extent to the original text. Of 

 these the bulk have been adopted by the authour into the later 

 German editions, an indisputable proof of the value of Mr. 

 Lawrence's additions. Li the present edition the whole of these 



