96 Literary Notices, 



considered in detail, and connected with the evidences of 

 history. Each kind of boundary is the theme of a distinct 

 chapter. The entire essay is made to occupy upwards of 

 100 pages. 



Art. II. Literary Notices. 



^^ Volumes on Entomology and Ichthyology^ hy ^,W\\sor\, 

 Esq., F. R.S.E , W. Macgillivray, Esq. M.W.S., the Rev. 

 W.Duncan of Applegarth, and the Rev. J.Duncan, M.W.S., 

 will appear at an early date. The next volume will con- 

 tain the 



Natural History of the Tellnce^ or Lions^ Tigers, &c. A 

 portrait and memoir of Cuvier will accompany the volume." 

 [Extract from Jardine's Natural History of Humming-birds, 

 vol. ii. Nov. 1833.) 



An Introduction to the Study of Nature, illustrative of the 

 Attributes of the Almighty, as displayed in the Creation, by 

 J. Stevenson Bushnan, F.L.S., &c., is announced to appear in 

 the spring of 1834, uniform with the Bridgewater Treatises. 



Cuvier' s Classification of the Animal Kingdom. — An abs- 

 tract of this is given in No. 63. of the Penny Cyclopaedia : it 

 occurs under the article Comparative Anatomy. 



The Parenfs Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction : No. 

 XIII., price 6d,, of this excellent monthly periodical, contains 

 some information on snails and spiders, which render it a fit 

 present for juvenile naturalists. 



A Teacher's First Lessons on Natural Meligion ; by Charles 

 Baker, head master of the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf 

 and Dumb, &c. &c. Price Sd. 



Geological Positions in direct Proof of an Impoitant Part of 

 Scripture Chronology. A circular containing these positions, 

 classed under two lines of argument, has been sent us ; and 

 it is there stated, that " a detail of the facts on which the above 

 positions are founded, has been sent to the Editors of the 

 London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal, in 

 which work they will probably soon appear, in the form of 

 two papers." 



Of Curtis's Illustrations of British Entomology the 10th 

 volume is just completed and published. 



Of 8te})hens's Illustrations of British Entomology it is stated, 

 in No. V. of the Entomological Magazine, that a number, in 

 resumption of the work, is about to be published. 



