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another department. — The whole of the 368th paragraph is very just, 

 and we are sorry that our limits will not admit of our transcribing it 

 here. 



We have only been able to take a very cursory view of the contents 

 of this useful volume, but we inform the scientific student of Natural 

 History, that he cannot have a better book than this if he wishes to 

 obtain a thorough knowledge of the classification and geographical 

 distribution of animals. In no other work would he find such a mass 

 of sound information in so small a compass, and in so p()])ular a style- 

 These volumes in the Cabinet Cyclopaedia are, perhaps, not indispensa- 

 ble to the professed zoologist, as every one who has any title to the 

 name of a scientific zoologist, must be familiar with the principles 

 inculcated in the Fauna Boreali- Americana ; but to those who are 

 unable to obtain this work, the volumes now in course of publication 

 are invaluable, and will, we have no doubt, sustain the very high 

 reputation of Swainson as a scientific zoohfgist. 



A Manual of Entomology, from the German of Dr. Hermann Burmei.tter. 

 By W. E. Shuckard,*M. E. S. with original Notes and additional 

 Plates Nos. I. to V. Churton, Holies-street, and Tilt, Fleet- 

 street, 1835. 



This is a translation of a popular work on that branch of Natural 

 History which treats of insects, and comprises a valuable introduction 

 to the science of Entomology. To investigate the nature of insects, 

 to shew how the insect is organized and formed, and to explain the 

 generalization and development of the various vital phenomena 

 observable in the class, is the useful and professed object of the pub- 

 lication, and to our judgment it will prove an important assistant to 

 the entomologist. There are occasionally interspersed, we observe, 

 many original experiments and observations, in addition to its other 

 scientific matter ; which, with the facts elicited by the laborious 

 investigations of the most eminent scientific men on this subject, must 

 necessarily render this work extremely useful and popular. We 

 believe that the study of insects, although more general than it was 

 a few years back, is still less cultivated than most other branches of 

 Natural History, notwithstanding it has the power to give an intense 

 interest to those who duly reflect on the purposes which insects have 

 to accomplish in the economy of nature. If this monthly publication 

 should stimulate a more general inquiry into a species of knowledge, 

 which to much attractiveness adds extreme usefulness, and that it 

 will do so we anticipate with confidence, the labours of the ingenious 

 translator will not have been exerted in vain. 



According to the prospectus, this work will be completed in about 

 eighteen numbers, and when we look at the faithfulness of the trans- 

 lation, its general neatness, and the number of its plates, we must, in 

 common justice, say that it ranks amongst the most respectable of the 

 cheap periodicals. 



The Arhoretum Britannicum. By J. C. Loudon, F. L. H. G. & Z. S. &c. 

 June, 1835. Longman and Co. 



The Architectural Magazine; the Gardener s Magazine ; and the Maga^ 

 zine of Natural Niatory. June, 1835. Conducted by J. C. Loudon, 

 Longman and Co. 



In the first-named work, by Mr. Loudon, there are sixteen plates, 

 eight from zinc and eight from wood, all from specimens in the garden 

 of the London Horticultural Society at Chiswick ; and although in 

 one or two of the wood engravings there is a trifling defectiveness. 



