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The Natural History Review. No XII. October, 1856. Published quar- 

 terly, price 2s. 6d. London: Highi.ey, Fleet Street. Edinburgh: John- 

 stons and Hunter. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. 



This number contains Reviews of: — 



Review 1. — "Popular Geography of Plants." By G. M.C. Edited by 

 Charles Danbury. 2. — "Popular History of British Lichens." By W. 

 Lander Lindsey. 3. — "Insecta Britannica — Diptera." By Francis Walker. 

 4.— "Manual of British Butterflies and Moths." By H. T. Stainton. 

 o._ "Ferns of Great Britain." By J. E. Sowerby. 6.— "The Fern Allies." 

 A supplement to the preceding. 7. — "British Poisonous Plants." By 

 Charles Johnson. 



Also notices of eighteen original communications made to various 

 societies. 



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The Penguin. — In a review of a book of Travels in Patagonia and the 

 Falklands, in the "Athenaeum" for October 3rd., mention is made of the 

 capture of a Penguin, "the skin of which one man could barely carry!" 

 Now the Penguin, according to Baron Cuvier, is only the size of a Goose. 

 I submit that the Albatross is the bird meant, though not expressed, for 

 this bird breeds in company with the Penguin, and being the size of a 

 sheep, more accords with the relation quoted in the above review, and which 

 has escaped the reviewer's notice. — D. Payne, ]S"ottingha*fl^;^|cj^ber 14th., 

 1857. 



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Autumnal tones. — One often remarks, and often hetr^£iemiw4fed about 

 the autumnal tints; and I have often remarked, but do not remember 

 ever to have heard remarks on the autumnal tones. Do not my country 

 readers agree with me that the sound of the cawing of the rooks in 

 September and October, has quite a different sound from the note of the 

 same birds in the winter or spring months? Whether it be the fineness 

 of the air, at this the finest season of the year, that causes the effect, 

 or whether the voice of the bird is itself different, certain it is, that to 

 me at least the effect is that I have spoken of, and the sound most 

 musical. — F. 0. Morris, JSunburnholrne Rectory, October 1st., 1857. 



Can any of my, or to speak more correctly now, of our, entomological 

 readers tell me the best method of taking grease out of a drawer, from 

 grease in an insect in it, without having to paper or whiten the whole 

 drawer afresh? — F. 0. Morris, Nunburnholme Rectory, October 1st., 1857. 



