432 Translation of Cuiier's Regne Animal. 



Cuvier, Baron, and Latreille, 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, Arachnides, 

 and Insecta by M. Latreille. Translated from the latest 

 French edition ; with additional notes, and illustrated by 

 nearly 500 plates, on steel. 8vo, in 36 numbers, Is. 

 each: to form four volumes. Number I. published on 

 July 1. 1833. London, 1833. 



This " new English version " of Cuvier's Regne Animal 

 is, we think, produced at an opportune time, and in a judi- 

 cious manner as to the rate of price and style of execution. 

 The first number, the only one we have seen, contains the 

 introduction, and the primary principles of classification. 

 Three plates and two coloured figures are also included, as 

 specimens of those which are prepared for the work : one is 

 of birds, the second of fishes, the third of crustaceous animals. 

 On the figures of the birds we may remark, that the " col- 

 lared pheasant (Phasianus torquatus) " stands in a point of 

 view in which we have never yet seen a pheasant stand ; and 

 the legs of " the wild hen of Java (Gallus Baukivus Tern.)" 

 look as if they had the wires of a museum within them. With 

 the plate of the fishes, and that of the crustaceous animals, 

 we have no fault to find. 



In the prospectus of this edition are these statements : — 

 Baron Cuvier, " shortly before his decease, put forth a final 

 edition of his Regne Animal, and in so altered and im- 

 proved a form as to give it a completely new character. 

 This publication, consequently, has had the effect of super- 

 seding the old edition, together with all the translations made 

 from that edition." In the translation now offered, " the 

 letterpress will be an exact and close translation of the 

 original, and will furnish not only the definite meaning, but 

 also the spirit of the text. In addition to this, a series of 

 notes will be subjoined, in which each branch of the general 

 science will be carried up to the present state of knowledge." 

 The notes by the English editor amount, in this number, to 

 a page and a half. They are two : one comprises a compen- 

 dium of Blumenbach's views on the " varieties of the human 

 species:" the other supplies some information, of interest, on 

 the structure of the «Simia 5atyrus and iSimia Troglodytes. 



The plates in this edition, it is announced, " will amount 

 to no fewer than Jive hundred. They will be engraved on 

 steel, and coloured in the most accurate manner, in con- 



