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ferred a different conclusion ; the author evidently means from 

 the poormess of the ore, and the 'want of facilities of working 

 the veins ; the sentence would then be intelligible to English 

 readers. 



We have given a fuller account of this small volume, and 

 offered our remarks more freely, than we should have done, 

 had not the author informed us that he is engaged in more 

 important researches on the mineralogy of Ireland. Should 

 he publish the result of his labours, we hope he will not, as 

 in the present volume, disguise every well-known mineral 

 under the pedantic names given to them by some Continental 

 mineralogists. This absurd jargon is justly falling into con- 

 tempt among the best informed geologists and mineralogists 

 of South Britain. The writer who would be a successful 

 author, in any science, should recollect that his object ought 

 not to be to make a parade of his own learning, but to con- 

 vey information in a form which shall be the most generally 

 Intel ligiblco ^ 



Art. II. Literary Notices. 



A SERIES of Lives of celebrated Naturalists is in preparation 

 for the Edinburgh Cabinet lAbrary. The series is to be in the 

 order of time, and to embrace the promoters of all branches 

 of natural history ; and is to estimate the relative effects of 

 the influence of each naturalist on the science. 



A Prodromus of the Characters of the Plants of the Peninsula 

 of India is in preparation by Dr. Wight and Mr. Arnott. 

 The work will be written in English. 



UListitut ; Journal General des Societes et Travaux Scienti- 

 fiques de la Prance et de VPtr anger. — From No. 41 ., sent to us, 

 published at Paris on Feb. 22. 1834, we learn that Ulnstitut 

 is published every Saturday; and is designed to include, in its 

 eight pages quarto, notices of the titles and gist of papers 

 read at all institutions, in France and out of France, on sub- 

 jects of science; together with notices of newly published 

 works on science. Messrs. Richter and Co., and M. Bail- 

 liere, are the London agents for this work. 



A P(ypular Introduction to the Modern Classification of 

 Insects is in preparation, by J. O. Westwood, F.L.S., &c. 

 It is to serve also as a sequel to the Litroduction to Lnto- 

 mology of the Rev. W. Kirby and W. Spence Esq., and to 

 comprise an account of the habits and transformations of the 

 different families ; and a synopsis of the British, and a notice 

 of the more remarkable exotic, genera ; and is to be illustrated 

 with several hundred figures, some of them coloured. 



