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THE NATURAL HISTORY REVIEW; 



('(inlaiiiing Reviews of all the New Works in connection with Natural History 



Notices of Serial Publications, and Full and authcnti(; Reports of the 



Natural History Societies in Ireland. 



The following are among the more important original Communications given in the April 

 Number : Notes on some Familiar Facts connected with Sounds and Hearing, by L. Dow- 

 den, Esq. — On Pectunculus glj^cimeris, and on the Local Range of Molluscous Animals, 

 by Dr. Farran — On a Species of Annelid new to Ireland, by W. Akurews, Esq. — On an 

 Addition to the Icthyology of Ireland, fwith a Plate,J by W. Anorews, Esq. — Directions 

 for Capturing, Setting, and Preserving Lepidoptera, by the Rev. Joseph Greene — On the 

 Occurrence of Lepidopus Argyreus in Dublin Bay, by Dr. R. Ball — On Cricetus Phocus 

 sent from Balaklava, by Dr. Carte — On the Capture of Anthocaris belia in Worcestershire, 

 by J. W. Lea, Esq. — Notes on Insects Captured or Observed in the Neighbourhood of 

 Dingle, Co. Kerry, in July, 1854, by A. R. Hooan — On Fungi Parasite on Insects, with 

 ])articular reference to recent Irish Specimens, ficith a Plate Woodcut, J by E. Percival 

 Wkioht, Esq. — Descriptions of New Insects, Figured, ftvith two Plates,) by A. H. Haliday, 

 Esq. — On a Cnistacean of the Genus Kigas, by J. Grainger, Esq. — Catalogue of Irish Mol- 

 lusca, with Directions for Collecting and Preseiwing them, by E. Percival Wright, Esq. ; 

 besides many other minor Communications. 



The Review for 1855 will be sent by post, on enclosing Bs. 6d. worth of postage-stamps 

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 is sent by post, on enclosing 8s. 



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SITUATION WANTED, 



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The advertiser is a middle-aged man ; has been long accustomed to shoot, collect, pre- 

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 generally useful to whoever employed him. It has been his practice to observe the habits 

 of animals, recording, and sometimes publishing the same, and the appearance of anything 

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Can furnish unexceptionable references as to his qualifications, moral character, and 

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sub-curator to the museum of anatomy, hospital, NORWICH, 



Begs respectfully to inform Proprietors of public and private Museums, that he has always 

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