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NOTICES AND ANALYSES OF NEW BOOKS AND 

 PAPERS. 



A System of Geography, popular and scientific. By James 

 Bell. Vol. IV. (Asia.) Glasgow. Blackie, Fullarton, and Co. 

 1830. 



This work, the former volumes of which have already received our 

 commendations, maintains its character as it advances towards its 

 completion. Two more volumes will terminate the system, of 

 which Europe, Africa, and Asia, are already published. 



Ueher die Geographische, S^c. On the Geographical Distribu- 

 tion of the Mammalia. By J. Minding. 4to, pp. 193. Berlin, 

 1829. 



This pamphlet is almost entirely composed of tables, exhibiting the 

 comparative distribution of the different families, genera, and species, 

 proper or common to the different parts of the world. 



DelicicB Muscei ZoologicB Vratislaviensis, Auctore J. L. C. 

 Gravenhorst. Fol. Leipzig. 



This beautiful work, on the Zoological Collection of the Breslaw 

 Museum, is publishing in numbers, containing about 106 pages, and 

 1 7 coloured plates. The critical remarks on synonymes are particularly 

 valuable. 



Principes de Philosophie Zoologique, &c. Principles of Zoolo- 

 gical Philosophy. ByM. Geoffroy St HiLAiRE. 8vo. pp. 226. 

 Paris, 1830. 



The following articles are contained in this work : — 



1. On the Theory of Analogies, to shew how it has become the subject 

 of a discussion in the Academy of Science, and to fix the precise 

 points of the controversy. 



2. On the necessity of printed works to supersede verbal communi- 

 cations in the controversy. 



3. Report on the Organization of the Mollusca, presented to the 

 Academy of Sciences, at the sitting of the 15th February, 1830. 



M. Geoffroy precedes this report, by an account of the circumstances 

 which gave rise to the controversy between M. Cuvier and himself. 



4. First argument of Baron Cuvier, being considerations on the 

 Mollusca, and on the Cephalopoda in particular. 



5. Extempore reply of M. Geoffroy. 



6. On the Theory of Analogies, to establish its novelty as a doctrine, 

 and its practical utility as an instrument. 



7. On the Theory of Analogies, as applied to the organization of fishes. 



8. Second argument of Baron Cuvier. 



9. On the Os Hyo'ides. Reply to the last argument of Baron Cuvier. 

 There are inserted at the end of these chapters, two summaries of the 



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