190 Bibliographical Notices, 



work on the plants of the Swan river and King George's Sound, col- 

 lected during the voyages and travels of Baron von Hiigel, an Au- 

 strian nobleman, of which we gave some account in the second vo- 

 lume of the ' Companion to the Botanical Magazine,' p. 190. Fol- 

 lowing, with some trifling alterations, the arrangement of De Can- 

 doUe, this fasciculus comprises from the Ranunculacea to Primulacece 

 inclusive. Besides containing full descriptions of the new and rare 

 species of the localities just mentioned, it includes, in the notes, re- 

 marks on other Australasian species ; as for example, of Candollea, 

 Rhamnea, BrachycomcB, &c. The authors of the different portions 

 of this work are, Mr. Bentham of the Leguminosee, and all the orders 

 of GarnopetalcB ; Edward Fenyl of the ParonycMece, Rhamnece, Halo- 

 ragece, Portulacece, Loranthacece, Restiacece and Cyperacea; Henry 

 Schlott of the Cryptogamia ; and of the rest Stephen Endlicher. 



The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Conducted by Professor 



Jameson. Number for April 1838. Edinburgh, A. Black and 



Co. 8vo. 



[Continued from vol. i. p. 398.] 



April 1838. Zoology. 



There are not many papers purely zoological in this number ; at 

 the same time, there are several very interesting, and which touch, 

 to a certain extent, on various points intimately connected both with 

 Zoology and Botany : — On the cause of the Temperature of Hot and 

 Thermal Springs, &c. ; by Professor Gustav Bischof of Bonn. Re- 

 marks on the geographical position of some points on the west coast 

 of Scotland; by William Galbraith, Edinburgh. Observations on 

 the Hurricanes and Storms of the West Indies, and the coast of the 

 United States — and, on the Differences of the Laws regulating Vital 

 and Physical Phsenomena; by William B. Carpenter, will be found 

 worthy of perusal. I. Observations on Rabies or Madness in Dogs, 

 Oxen, Horses, Pigs and Sheep ; by Dr. Wagner, Medico-Forensic 

 Censor of the Schieben District. " In Dogs " a dread of water is 

 not an invariable symptom attending rabies, several instances ha- 

 ving occurred to the author where this was not exhibited. "In Oxen " 

 the author has met with the most numerous instances of madness. 

 Two states of it appear to prevail ; one in which there is no apparent 

 loathing of water, and where the animal pines and loses condition, 

 but seems to be urged by no vicious propensity ; life is terminated 

 between the sixth and the ninth day ; the animals sink on one side 

 (mostly on the left), the head stretched backwards ; the trunk con- 



