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M. Aloyse CoUa gives a notice of the plants which have flowered 

 in his garden at Rivoli in 1826, accompanied by figures of those 

 which he considers the newest or most interesting. 



M. Re pays a tribute to the memory of Bellardi, by publishing under 

 the title Reliquice BellardiancE, the botanical notes which this vene- 

 rable man was urs-b." j io arrange for the Flore Piemontaise. 



Dr Cantu describes a m na of compact violet carbonate of manganese, 

 discovered in tne yClay of Lanzo. As this species is almost 

 entirely free from ircr.j ii vvill be found very useful for glass-houses 

 and chemical laboraiorisa. 



Professor Borson conirijutes a notice of some fossils of the Tarentaise. 

 His object is to bring new proofs in support of the opinion of M. 

 Brochaiit de Villiers, who regards this district as of the transition 

 series. 



The Magazine of Natural History ; conducted by J. C. Loudon» 

 F.L.G. and Z.S. &c. No. XVII. Jan. 1831. 



This Number is much below the average, and contains nothing remark- 

 able in a scientific point of view. In passing, we may suggest, that 

 the editor would do a great service to his readers, were he to divide 

 his work into two parts : collecting together the information which 

 would be serviceable to the student of science, and thereby saving 

 him the disagreeable labour of travelling through those popular lucu- 

 brations, the perusal of which can afford little gratification except to 

 their authors. 



We may take this opportunity to remark, that since the publication of 

 our last Number, we have received a letter from Mr Loudon, in which, 

 as well as by two notices in his Magazine, he explains the circumstance 

 of his having published Mr Ainsworth's " Notes on the Pyrenees," 

 without acknowledgment, some time after their appeai'ance in this 

 Journal. He states, that Mr Ainsworth had communicated to him 

 the MS. so long since as April, 1829; and that, having only seen the 

 first two Numbers of this Journal, he was not aware that the paper 

 had been already published, when he inserted it in his Magazine in 

 November last. We are sorry to have given Mr Loudon so much 

 trouble, because we really did not attach any particular importance 

 to the matter, and only noticed it as an apparent breach of custom. 

 We have, however, much pleasure in entirely withdramng the in- 

 sinuation that the paper was originally obtained from our pages ; 

 though, at the same time, we cannot refrain from remarking, that 

 Mr Loudon would in future do well to keep a stricter eye on the ■ 

 natural history periodicals, at least of his own country, kst he fall 

 again into a similar blunder. As far as we are concerned, we 

 shall have much pleasure in transmitting to him our Numbers 

 regularly as they appear, to facilitate his useful labours. 



Transactions of the Albany Institute. Vol. I. No. IV. for 

 June, 1830. 



The present Number contains the following papers : — An Account of 

 a Man who lived on Water fifty-three days, by James M'Naughton. 

 — Monograph of the Cones of the United States, by Professor Jacob 



Green, with a plate Observations on the Coal Formation of the 



States of New York and Pennsylvania, by Professor Eaton On the 



Dcdia of the United States, by Professor Green Address before the 



Lyceum of Nat. Hist, of the Institute, by Dr T. R. Beck. — Note 

 respecting the Ranunculus lacustris, by Dr Lewis C Beck, and 

 Jones B. Tracey, with a plate — Reclamation of Salamanders, in a. 



Letter to Baron Cuvier, by Jacob Green History of tbeiiistitute» 



with an abstract af its proceedings. : . . - ..i i .;..; »^x 



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