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this Guide contains many hints well worth attention ; but, notwithstanding the 

 date of the preface, it does not appear to have been written with that care and 

 accuracy so necessary in a scientific treatise. 



The Naturalist's Library. "Conducted by Sir W. Jardine, Bart., F. R. S. E., 

 F. L. S., &c. Mammalia, Vol. VI. Ordinary Cetacea or Whales. Edin- 

 burgh : Lizars ; Highley, London ; Curry, Dublin. 1837. 

 Here we have an extremely well- written account of a most interesting but 

 somewhat obscure race of animals, illustrated by the usual ample number of co- 

 loured plates, and at the same extraordinarily low price as heretofore. The 

 volume opens witha biographical sketch of Lacepede, or M. le Comte de Lace- 

 pede, as his countrymen would doubtless wish him to be styled. — The Cetacea 

 have ever been wrapped in much obscurity, the accounts of species resting for the 

 most part on the confused accounts of mariners, or the drawings of unscientific 

 persons. The valuable works of Scoresby and others have greatly contributed 

 towards the elucidation of the Cetacea, but much yet remains to be done. The 

 present volume places the subject in as clear a point of view as it will at present 

 admit of, and contains much that will instruct the naturalist as well as interest 

 the less scientific reader. 



PERIODICALS. 



The Magazine of Zoology and Botany. Conducted by Sir Wm. Jardine, Bart. 



P. J. Selby, Esq., and Dr. Johnston. Edinburgh : Lizars ; Highley, London, 



No. v. Feb. 1837. 

 This is an invaluable journal ; but we fear that the public is yet scarcely pre- 

 pared for it ; and that it will be supported rather by the names of its Editors and 

 contributors, than by the real interest it will impart to the generality of readers. 

 The perusal of the present number has given us sincere pleasure ; and we hope so 

 excellent a magazine will maintain its ground. 



The Analyst ; a Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and 

 the Fine Arts. Edited by W. Holl, F. G. S., and Neville Wood, Esq., 

 &c. London: Simpkin and Marshall. No. xix. Jan. 1837- 

 Each No. of the Analyst contains much matter of interest to the naturalist, 

 under the various heads of " Original Communications," " Correspondence," 

 " Proceedings of Provincial Societies," " Miscellaneous Communications," 

 " Extracts from the Foreign Journals," and " Reviews," concluding with 

 a meteorological report for the preceding quarter. It is not for us to pro- 

 nounce any opinion on the merits of this periodical, but of course we are expected 

 to take some notice of every work, bearing on Natural History, that may be 

 sent us. 



