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nate months, and is to be completed in three volumes. We anticipate, with 

 increasing pleasure, the appearance of each successive part, and shall continue, 

 if possible, to report regularly on the progress of the work. 



The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science. Vol. XL, 

 No. liv. Published quarterly. New Series, No. i., Dec, 1837. London : 

 Simpkin, Marshall, fy Co. : Maclachan Sr Stewart, Edinburgh, pp. 9G. 



This old friend and favourite of ours, published during a period of fifteen years 

 at Edinburgh — a considerable portion of that time at a heavy loss — is now re- 

 moved to London, and appears under the auspices of Mr. H. C. Watson, the 

 well-known botanist. The arrangement and spirit of this number is excellent, 

 and augurs extremely well. We only wish the Editor had allowed the old 

 controversy between himself and the former Conductors to rest in oblivion — to 

 say the least it cannot be considered otherwise than bad taste. The work ought 

 to be perused by every philosophic naturalist, who should not be a mere collector 

 of specimens and framer of systems, but ought to feel interested in the rationale 

 of Natural History in its most extended sense. Besides the purely phrenological 

 articles there are several notices of immediate interest to the naturalist. We 

 hope ere long to return to this instructive periodical. 



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A new edition of Bechstein's Cage Birds is just published; but, not having 

 seen it, we can deliver no opinion as to its contents. — The first volume of British 

 Birds, by Sir W. Jardine, has lately appeared, forming a part of his Naturalist's 

 Library. This work has not yet reached us. — In the press, and speedily will be 

 published, in one 12mo. vol., The Wonders of Geology, with numerous engravings. 

 By Gideon Mantell, Esq., L.L.D., F.R.S. — We ought to observe that the 

 second volume of Mr. Watson's New Botanist's Guide — reviewed in our current 

 number, p. 53 — is a reprint, the whole of the first impression having been 

 destroyed by fire, at the printer's (Mr. Spottiswoode), in the spring of 1837. 



