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what we have said. We sincerely wish success to the Entomological Magazine, 

 as to every promising periodical relating to Natural History, but the character of 

 some of the articles admitted must be considerably altered before it can become 

 a general favourite. It moreover wants popularizing a little. 



Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve. Nouvelle Serie. Seconde Annee. No. 

 xvii. Mai, 1837. Geneve: A Cherbuliez, Rue-de-la-cite. 



This is an admirable and extremely well-conducted periodical, issuing monthly, 

 in thick 8vo. numbers, at Geneva. Its scope and objects are sufficiently varied 

 to suit almost all tastes, and the frequent translations we have from time to time 

 made from its pages will at once attest our approbation of that department of the 

 magazine devoted to Natural History. 



Annales des Sciences Naturelles, comprenant la Zoologie, la Botanique, l'Ana- 

 tomie et la Physiologie Comparees des deux Regnes, et V Histoire des Corps 

 organises fossiles. Redigees, pour la Zoologie, par MM. Adouin et Milne 

 Edwards, et pour la Botanique, par MM. Ad. Brongniart et Guillemin. 

 Nov. 1836. Paris: Crochard et Cie. 



France is, perhaps, the only country in the world capable of producing a work 

 like the Annales des Sciences Naturelles — the only country, too, capable of 

 appreciating such a publication, and this, to say the truth, is no slight compli- 

 ment. In England, unquestionably, a periodical of similar character would not 

 last six months. "We are apt to boast of the popularity of Natural History in 

 this country ; but the circumstance of some of the best journals relating to this 

 very popular study barely paying their expenses — while one still keeps afloat by 

 the force of old associations, and the influence of the publishers — is a poor en- 

 couragement to those Editors who have toiled so hard for the general good. 



Every number of the Annales contains a vast mass of valuable matter relative 

 to Zoology and Botany, and the work is every way worthy its eminent con- 

 ductors. 



To this periodical, as well as the preceding, we have frequently resorted for 

 the amusement and instruction of our readers. 



