606 Cuvier^s Animal Kingdom, 



fair to be the instrument of placing before the public such a 

 store of information (some of it, too, addressed with force to 

 the heart and understanding) on natural objects, as has not 

 ever previously been generally accessible. 



Cuvier, Baron, and Lalreille, P. A, : The Animal Kingdom 

 arranged according to its Organisation, serving as a Found- 

 ation for the Natural History of Animals, and an Intro- 

 duction to Comparative Anatomy ; by Baron Cuvier. With 

 Figures designed after Nature. The Crustacea, Arach- 

 nides, and Insects, by M. Latreille. Translated from the 

 latest French Edition; with additional Notes, and illus- 

 trated by nearly 500 Plates on Steel. 8vo, in 36 Numbers, 

 l5. each : to form Four Volumes. Number L, published on 

 July 1. 1833. London, 1833. 



The above words are a copy of those in our VI. 432. (in 

 the Number for September, 1833), where we have farther 

 pointed out the work to the notice of our readers. The fol- 

 lowing communication remarks on the subsequent conducting 

 of the undertaking : — 



I will thank you to insert, in an early Number of your 

 Magazine of Natural Historij, the following extracts from the 

 advertisements on the cover of the Translation of Baron Cu- 

 vier's JRegne Animal, published by G. Henderson ; and a 

 statement of facts, which proves the falsehood of the extracts 

 quoted : — 



From No. 1. — " The work will consist of 36 numbers ; 

 each will be sold at one shilling: it will appear," &c. 



I have already received 37 numbers: for the first 27? I 



paid l5. each ; and for the 10 subsequent numbers, 2s» each. 



" The plates, which constitute the most important source 

 of expense, will amount to no fewer than 500," &c. 



The third volume is not yet completed: the numbers 



already published contain only 164 out of the 500 plates 



promised. 



" The advantages of the new work will at once be demon- 

 strated, when it is stated that, for the sum of 365., the version 

 of a celebrated standard work, richly illustrated, will be ob- 

 tained ; which, in the original, with its plates, costs more 

 than 36/." 



The work is to consist of four volumes ; it was to cost 



\L 165. : 336 plates, and more than one volume of letterpress 



still remain unpublished; and, for what I have already 



received, I have paid 2/. 75. 



From No. 4. — " The work will consist of 90 numbers ; 

 each will be sold at sixpence^'' &c. 



