188 Scientific Intelligence. — Zoology. 



termined. It occurs at Alabaschka near Mursinsk, and, on account 

 of its yellow colour, has been named Pyrrhite. — G. Rose in Fog- 

 gendorff's Annalen. 



ZOOLOGY. 



13. 0)1 the Zoological Labours of M. Sars, of Floroe in Norway. 

 — In the high north, beyond the 60th degree of northern latitude, 

 there is a clergyman at Floroe, almost entirely cut oif from the 

 learned world, and distant about 280 miles from a zoological library, 

 who, by his indefatigable zeal, has made himself acquainted with 

 all the most important zoological discoveries, and has himself in- 

 creased the number of these discoveries in a most remarkable man- 

 ner. It is the sea animals of the lower classes which he accurately 

 and judiciously describes, and admirably represents* In 1835, he 

 published his work entitled Beskrivelser og Jagttagelser over Nogle 

 Maerkelige eller nye i Ha vet ved den Bergenske Kyst levende Dyr^ af 

 M, Sars, and which is illustrated by fifteen plates. Two things 

 are to be regretted ; that he writes in the Danish language, and 

 thus prevents the diffusion of his discoveries, and that the litho- 

 graphy of Bergen is not capable of producing the sharp outlines 

 which are necessary in minute zoological objects. He previously 

 published a contribution to the natural history of marine animals 

 in 1829, and an account of it was given in the Jsis of 1833. In 

 his last published work, mentioned above, he has improved much 

 of what he formerly made known ; but the greater portion of it is 

 quite new, and at the same time very instructive. His observations 

 were made between 60° and QO}/ north latitude, and the subjects of 

 them have been the Polypi, Acalephae, Asteridae, Annulata, and 

 MoUusca. 



Most of the species described are figured both entire and in their 

 different parts. The descriptions are very full, and are made with 

 a perfect knowledge of the most recent investigations in the same 

 field, so that the determinations are to be depended on. This re- 

 markable book contains several new genera and many species, 

 some of which really fill up gaps in the orders of the zoological 

 system. It is much to be wished that the active author were 

 placed in a locality more suited to the cultivation of the sciences, 

 and in one more congenial to his nature and acquirements, such as 

 Christiania or Copenhagen. — {^Abridged from Oken^s Isis,) 



14. Aristotles History of Animals Dr Osborne, in a memoir 



read before the Royal Irish Academy, commenced by observing, 

 that this work was composed under circumstances more favourable 

 to the acquisition of natural knowledge than any work on the sub- 

 ject ever published. According to Pliny, some thousands of men 



