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fossil state, exhibit about twenty new species, and are illustrated 

 by twelve figures. The Table of Zoophytes is yet more extensive, 

 amounting to two hundred species : nearly one half of these are 

 new, and several of them are referred to new genera. The illus- 

 trations to this department are equally numerous and well exe- 

 cuted, as those which are given to the other orders. 



At the conclusion of our notice, we repeat the remark with 

 which it commenced; the work of M. Risso is worthy of its 

 authour, to whose deserved reputation it is calculated to add con- 

 siderably. Availing himself most zealously of the opportunities 

 afforded by his fortunate location of becoming intimately ac- 

 quainted with Nature in her infinitely varied productions, he has 

 not limited his ambition to the bare possession of specimens of 

 them, but has aimed at communicating to others the knowledge 

 he has himself acquired from their contemplation. If in so doing 

 he may have erred occasionally, especially in too minute a sub- 

 division, as well of species as of genera, the error, although to be 

 deprecated by every one who wishes well to the progress of zoo- 

 logical knowledge, can by no means be put in competition with 

 the good he has effected by his really valuable publication. 



Art. LXVII. Proceedings of Learned Societies on subjects 

 connected with Zoologi/, 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



November 15, 1827. — The Croonian Lecture, by Sir E. Home, 

 Bart., V.P., was read, entitled On the Muscles peculiar to organs 

 of sense in particular Quadrupeds and Fishes, 



The authour selected for the subjects of this lecture the pecu- 

 liarities in the muscular structure of the tongue of the Xariffa 

 or Camelopar dak's Giraffa, an inhabitant of Soudan in Africa ; 

 and a muscle belonging to the eye of the Cobitis anableps^a. fish 

 inhabiting the rivers of Surinam, and called by the natives ^' the 

 four-eyed fish." 



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