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logne there is but one murderer out of 60,000 individuals, and 

 the same out of 35,000 in Saxony and in the country of Muns- 

 ster. But the country in which most crimes are committed is 

 the district of Marienwerder, where, out of 25,000 individuals, 

 there is one murderer. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Illustratimis of Zoology, being representations of new, rare, or 

 otherwise remarhable subjects of the Animal Kingdom, drawn 

 and coloured after Nature, with Descriptive Letter-Press. 

 By James Wilson, Esq. F. R. S. E. Member of the Wer- 

 nerian Natural History Society. William Blackwood, Edin- 

 burgh, and T. Cadell, London. No. 11. 



XN our last Number we gave a brief account of the com- 

 mencement of a periodical work, the first of its kind attempted 

 in Scotland, embracing the whole range of Zoology, and of a 

 nature sufficiently general and miscellaneous to prove attractive 

 to a numerous class of readers, though devoted to the illustra- 

 tion of a single science, — that of Natural History. Of its plan 

 and execution we augured well, and our hopes have been in- 

 creased, rather than diminished, by a perusal of the second 

 Number. We again, therefore, recommend it to the attention 

 of our readers, not only as a novel and highly interesting addition 

 to our stock of scientific publications, but as an earnest and 

 forerunner of a more general taste for the pursuits of natural 

 history, than has hitherto been manifested in Scotland. In- 

 deed, the genius of the artist, and the skill of the typographer, 

 have been all along so sparingly employed in aid of the natu- 

 ral sciences in this quarter of the island, that little can be said 

 either in reprobation of the lukewarm patronage of the pub- 

 lic, or in favour of such works as may be alleged to have suf- 

 fered from the darkness of an undeserved oblivion. From the 

 well known fact, however, that many volumes, in various depart- 

 ments of literature, of the most elegant and ornamental kind, 

 had proceeded from the Scotch press, it might have been 

 fairly inferred, that it was rather from a deficiency of pub- 



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