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■ &fe&'l. Catalogue of Works on Natural History, lately' published, 



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 Macgillivray, W., M.A. (Conservator of the Museum of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Member 

 of the Natural History Societies of Edinburgh and Phil- 

 adelphia, &c.) : The Travels and Researches of Alexander 

 von Humboldt : being a condensed Narrative of his 

 Journeys in the Equinoctial Regions of America, and in 

 Asiatic Russia; together with Analyses of his more im- 

 portant Investigations. With a portrait of Humboldt by 

 Horsburgh, a map of the Orinoco by Bruce, and 5 en- 

 gravings by Jackson. Foolscap 8vo, 424 pages, forming 

 the tenth volume of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library. Edin- 

 burgh and London, 1832. 5s. [fiqi-iflhq 

 We have given the above detailed title to excuse our wilful 

 omission of an analytical notice of the book, for which we 

 have not space. We may briefly state that the volume is a 

 most entertaining one, and is rich in notices of numerous and 

 various objects of natural history ; while the extraordinary 

 spirit of enterprise manifested by the travellers, Humboldt 

 and Bonpland, must delight the old, and excite the young to 

 emulate it. 



We would record our apprehension, that the cut of the 

 " Dragon Tree of Orotava" (p. 48.) has, if the plant be of 

 the species Dracae'na Draco L., had its characteristics sacri- 

 ficed for the sake of increasing its beauty as a picture : the 

 ugly cut of the same living tree, which occurs in the Penny 

 Magazine for December 1. (p. 352.), we should consider, 

 from a practical acquaintance with the Draca3 N na Draco in 

 English stoves, to be a much truer resemblance. l8£»i9Jui fti 



Featherstonhaugh, G. W., F.G.S. &c. &c. : The Monthly 

 American Journal of Geology and Natural Science ; ex- 

 hibiting the present State and Progress of Knowledge in 

 Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Comparative Anatomy, 

 Chemistry, Meteorology, Physical Natural Agents, and 

 the Antiquities and Languages of the Indians of the Ame- 



