206 Scientific Intelligence. — New Pitblications* 



one vain attempt to reconcile this tribe to the approaches of civi- 

 lization about sixteen years ago ; but to civilize a long persecuted 

 tribe of savages requires repeated attempts of this kind. 



42. %^aptain Parry's reported Second Expedition to the North 

 Pole. — Although it has been generally believed that Captain 

 Parry was next season to resume his attempt in reaching the 

 North Pole, we can assure our readers that no such plan ever 

 was entertained by the Admiralty. The report may have ori- 

 ginated in Captain Franklin's having expressed a wish to be al- 

 lowed (by means of a ship sent by Bering''s Strait), to finish 

 the very small portion of the north coast now remaining unex- 

 amined ; and, at the same time, a similar patch on the Asiatic 

 side, respecting which a doubt has hitherto existed. But we are 

 informed there will certainly be nothing undertaken until Cap- 

 tain Beechy's return with the Blossom. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



1. Introduction to Comparative Anatomy. By Professor Ca- 

 Bus of Dresden. Translated from the German by R. T. 

 Gore, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo, with a Quarto Volume of Plates. 

 Longman & Co. London, 1827. 



-^^ OT WITHSTANDING the number of contributors to compara- 

 tive anatomy in this country, it is somewhat remarkable that 

 the translations of Blumenbach, Cuvier, and Carus, are almost 

 the only elementary works on this highly interesting and useful 

 branch of science, which exist in the English language. Pro- 

 fessor Carus, the author of the manual now before us, was for- 

 merly teacher of tlie science at Leipsic ; he has travelled and 

 examined animals, both in their recent state, and prepared in 

 museums, particularly in the extensive museum of comparative 

 anatomy under the care of Rudolphi at Berlin, and he is the 

 author of various memoirs and treatises on this subject. The 

 splendid illustrations of comparative anatomy, now publishing 

 at Leipsic, in large folio fasciculi, is the production of Carus, 

 and most of the plates of that work are drawn by him from na- 

 ture ; but his reputation is chiefly founded on his recent im- 



