258 Notices and Analyses. 



Lamouroux, and a notice of the life of the author. This, however, 

 being an elementary work, the notes are very properly restricted to 

 clearing up obscure or incomplete passages of the original. 



Instruction pour les Voyageurs, S^c. Instructions for Travellers, 

 and those employed in the Colonies, on the Method of Collecting, 

 Preserving, and Transporting Objects of Natural History ; drawn 

 up by request of his Excellency the Minister of the Marine, under 

 the direction of the Museum of Natural History. 3d edit. 8vo. 

 Paris, 1829. Belin. 



We have so often had inquiries as to the mode of preserving and send- 

 ing home objects of natural history, that we, once for all, give this as 

 one of the best books of directions with which we are acquainted. 



, . Another of the same class is the Manuel du Naturaliste Preparateur. 



[jBii-l ^^ have no good book in the English language on this subject. 

 " Taxidermy " is, we helieve, the hest. 



Travels in the East Indies. By Ch. BelangER. Zoology, 

 1 vol. in 8vo. with 4to atlas of 40 coloured plates. Prospectus, 



We have in a former Number, (p. 164 supra,) noticed M. Cuvier's 

 favourable report on the zoological collections and manuscripts of 

 M. Belanger. We have now a proposal for the publication of these 

 interesting materials. The mammalogy and ornithology will be 

 intrusted to M. Isid. St Hilaire ; M. Lesson will take charge of the 

 description of the fishes and reptiles ; the insects will be described by 

 M. Guerin ; and the moUusca by M. Deshayes. 



This zoological part will be preceded by general observations on the 

 people of Asia and Chinese India ; and each of the classes of this 

 section by general remarks on the geographical distribution of the 

 animals of which it treats. 



Fifteen plates will be devoted to the mammalia and birds ; fifteen to 

 the fishes and reptiles ; four to the mollusca and radiata ; four to 

 the insects, and two to the Crustacea. 



The zoological part will appear in eight fasciculi j each of which will 

 be charged eight shillings to subscribers. 



Histoire naturelle des Mammiferes, S^c. Natural History of 

 the Mammalia. By MM. F. Cuvier and Geoffroy St Hilaire. 

 4to edit. 



Two more livraisons, the 8th and 9th, are at last published of this tardy 

 work. The baboons, or Cynocephali, are completed in these two 

 numbers. The text contains the description of the genus Cynoce- 

 phalus, and commences the history of the American apes. 



This edition, if it were but published regularly, has many advantages 

 over the ponderous and expensive edition in elephant folio. 



Observations sur les Chauve-souris, Sfc. Observations on the 

 Bats, and description of a new species. By M. Brehm. Isis, 

 1829. 



