Literary Notices. 509 



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A work entitled The Naturalist's Poetical Companion ;*fitk 



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u.O^The^NtUural'Histo^qftkeHummin^Bhif, by Sir W. 

 Jardine, Bart., it is announced that a second volume "will be 

 published before or about November^* <*> lohoian altera art 

 ^/ volume on the Parrots, to contain "representations of 35 

 of that splendid and amusing tribe," is in preparation by 

 Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart., and Captain Brown: the 

 engravings by J. B. Kidd, Esq. The size foolscap 8vo, price 

 6s. This is intended to be the first of a series of volumes by 

 the above authors, and which are to be entitled, in common, 

 The Miscellany of Natural History. Auioql Xy V^ liiC { <\P l 



Of Hewitson's British Oology, the thirteenth number, or the 

 first number of the second volume, has been lately pub- 

 lished*. The author has " recently visited Norway; a consi- 

 derable portion of the north-west coast of which he has traversed 

 purposely to add rarities to his work." lfm '? 



Part i. price 205. of Royle's Illustrations (see p. 445.), has 

 appeared. It is in 4to, and contains 10 coloured lithographs, 

 which exhibit 15 plants, and one animal, the Lagomys alpinus 

 Desm. The text in the present Part does not describe these. 

 A Journal of Botany has been commenced by Dr. Hooker. 

 It is to form a new series of his well-known and far-famed 

 Botanical Miscellany (which is just terminated, and forms three 

 volumes, royal 8 vo, with 150 plates), but to differ in being of 

 de#}y«8vo size (instead of royal 8vo), and in its price being 

 75. 6d. (instead of 10s. 6d.). It is to be published in quarterly 

 numbers, each of which is to contain 8 plates, and 4 of these 

 are to be coloured. 



Of Ltcs JRecherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, of Dr. Louis 

 Agassiz, the first livraison was, by a prospectus dated " Neu- 

 chatel, le 10. Mai, 1833," and now (Oct. 1 7. ) received, to 

 appear on Sept. 1, 1833. The geological evidence and argu- 

 ments suggested by the fossils are to receive full elucidation. 

 The work is to comprise the description of five hundred 

 extinct species of fish, and to be published in 12 livraisons, 

 of which each, price 24 French francs, is to consist of from 

 10 to 15 sheets of text in 4to, and 20 plates in folio. Dr. 

 Agassiz states that the work will cost him so much, that 

 he shall not distribute for sale a single copy. Persons willing 

 to subscribe, are to address direct to himself. 



No. x. of Lindley and Hutton's Fossil Flora of Great Bri- 

 tain contains a series of most interesting " Remarks upon the 

 origin of coal." 



