176 OUTLINES OP PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 



Professor Phillips gives a concise but most important biographical notice of 

 William Smith, L.L.D., the « father of English geology." Dr. Bachman 

 then describes another species, with two varieties, of the squirrels : Dr. 

 Drummond notices and figures one Irish Entozoon : Mr. Hope characterizes 

 a new species of Lamia : Mr. V. Wood distinguishes the four species of the 

 genus Lima, and two species of the sub-genus Limatula, from the coralline 

 crag : Mr. Long and Mr. Yarrell record the discovery of the nest And eggs 

 of a common Cross-bill found in Surrey: Mr. Saunders points out the locali- 

 ties of forty plants growing about Kirtlington, and Mr. Charlesworth con- 

 tributes an additional section to his illustrated zoological notices. Heviews 

 of three books, a French, a German, and an English — Beale's on the Sperm- 

 whale, with a plate — conduct you to the editorial article, having reference 

 chiefly to the characters of the Stonesfield fossil jaws, and to the first speci- 

 men, by M. Louis Agassiz, of a regular system of piracy upon the literary 

 productions of English naturalists. The Short Communications are inti- 

 tuled, Breeding of the Woodcock in England, Observations on the Iconogra- 

 phie des Insectes Cole'opteres, and a new species of frog in yellow amber. 



No. I. of Natural-History Illustrations, or supplementary plates to the Ma- 

 gazine of Natural History, contains four exquisitely-finished engravings. 

 The first is a " living likeness" of William Smith, L.L.D., a portrait which 

 ought to occupy a distinguished position in the library of every British geo- 

 logist. For the second, you have a perfect figure of the magnificent Lamia 

 boisduvalli, a new species from New Holland. The third plate represents the 

 four species of Lima and two of the Limatula, in twenty-four figures; and, on 

 the fourth, are exhibited the fossil remains of the Hybodus delabechei, with 

 admirable exactness and beauty. The Natural- History Illustrations possess 

 extraordinary merit as mere examples of Art ; as graphical aids to the de- 

 velopment of science, their importance and execution cannot be too highly 

 appreciated. 



No. XXX, June.— With farther observations on the history and classifica- 

 tion of the Marsupial quadrupeds of New Holland by Mr. Ogilby, this num- 

 ber opens with its valuable stores- Mr. Hogg follows with a prefatory re- 

 view of the classifications of Amphibious animals adopted by modern natura- 

 lists, and the first portion of an arrangement which hehimself has construct- 

 ed and prefers. Observations on the Rodcntia, by Mr. Waterhouse, are con- 

 tinued and illustrated with ten figures of skulls and jaws. Mr. Ogilby de- 

 scribes and figures the frontal spine of a new species of Hybodus found in 

 wealden clay ; and Mr. Woods addresses a letter to the editor respecting the 

 supposed frontal spine of Hybodus in the Bath museum. Dr. Moore's cata- 

 logue of the Malacostracous Crustacea of South Devon, is a methodical, ex- 

 act, and important contribution to the natural history of that district. In 

 another section of his anatomy of the Lamellibranchiate Conchi/erous animals, 

 Mr. Garner enlarges minutely on their excretory system. A consorious epis- 

 tle from " Philalethes" represents the Botanical Garden at Calcutta as hav- 

 ing fallen into a state of lamentable degradation, and then Reviews of Hope's 

 Coleopterist's Manual and of Halliday's Hymenoptera Britannica, bring you 

 to the Short Communications, with the titles — Breeding of the Cross-bill in 

 Gloucestershire and Surrey ; carnivorous propensity of the Squirrel ; and 

 the distribution of the Marsupial animals. 



