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and other viscera, occasionally, when interesting in structure, 

 iform, or function. The different boats, nets, or other appa- 

 ratus in use on the coast, will be figured, and the modes of 

 employing them described. The work will form two volumes 

 octavo, uniform in size with Bewick's British Birds. We 

 have seen a series of impressions of the cuts executed for this 

 work, and can bear testimony to their accuracy and beauty. 



The Third Report of the British Association for the Advance- 

 merit of Science is published. It contains a Report on phy- 

 siological botany, by Dr. Lindley ; and other communications, 

 of interest to naturalists. 



No. viii. of the Eritomological Magazine sustains the repu- 

 tation of this most valuable work ; which, we trust, will ever 

 henceforth be felt by naturalists to be an indispensable one. 



A Grammar of Entomology: being a compendious intro- 

 duction to the economy, anatomy, classification, and preserv- 

 ation of insects, by E. Newman, F.L.S., is announced. " As 

 it is the author's object to render this work generally useful, 

 it will be published at a very low price ; and no Latin or 

 technical terms will be used without explanation." [Ent, 

 Mag,) 



An Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera, com- 

 prising a description of all the British species of sand wasps 

 extant in the metropolitan cabinets, by W. E. Shuckard, has 

 been announced for publication. 



Part iii. of Royle's Illustrations of the Botany and other 

 Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains^ 

 and of the Flora of Cashmere, is published. It is as interest- 

 ing as the preceding ones. In a continuation of the " Intro- 

 duction," information is given on the relative heights of the 

 Himalayan Mountains, as compared with each other and the 

 known heights of those in other countries. A treatise on the 

 Indian species of Gossypium, or cotton, is given in the text, 

 descriptive of the plants ; and, in the plates, there are, be- 

 sides the figures of plants, one plate of " fossil plants from 

 the Burdwan coal formation," and a plate exhibiting figures 

 of Cervus Dbdur and C Rutwa Hodgson ; two pretty animals. 



A Prodromus of a Flora of the Peninsida of India is in pre- 

 paration by Dr. Wight and Mr. Arnott. The work is to be 

 written " in the English language, and will be completed in 

 two volumes. The first, comprising from 2?anunculaceae to 

 the end of jRubiaceae, will be ready in a few weeks." 



Part iii. of Hooker's Journal ofBotayiy, which has reached 

 us since the publication of our last, is rich in contents of high 

 interest to every technical botanist. 



