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But perhaps the best and most philosophic work on general Zoology still 

 remains uncompleted. We allude to the series in course of publication in Lard- 

 ner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, by William Swainson, Esq. It professes to be a 

 condensed text-book of the science, and this purpose it will, we confidently anti- 

 cipate, fulfil in a most satisfactory manner. This series contains an exposition of 

 the quinary system well worthy of careful and repeated perusal, and will tend yet 

 further to increase the well-merited celebrity of its talented author. The 

 Naturalist's Library is too extensively known to require any notice in this 

 place. 



The last work to be mentioned treating of Zoology in general is Partington's 

 Cyclopaedia of Natural History. It is too evidently published with a view to the 

 publisher's purse, and contains faults of all kinds ; but still it conveys an im- 

 mense mass of instructive matter in a cheap and portable manner, and, though 

 imperfect, it will be found very useful for reference. 



We now turn to works on general Zoology treating of particular countries or 

 districts, and this department will be found much richer than that which we have 

 ju6t left. Catesby's Natural History of Carolina (1731, 2 vols, folio), is a 

 splendid publication, with fine coloured plates, and descriptive letter-press. The 

 edition published by Edwards in 1771 is, we presume, still to be had. The 

 Fauna Grosnlandica (1790) of Fabricius, and Linn^eus's Fauna Suecica, are 

 both esteemed valuable, as also is Illiger's Prodromus Mammalium et Avium. 

 Muller may be consulted for his Zoologia Danica (4 vols., folio, 1788 — 1806). 

 Berkenhout's Synopsis of the Natural History of Britain (2 vols., 1789) and 

 Turton's British Fauna (1807, 12mo.) are too antiquated to be of any value 

 at the present day : the same sentence may be passed on a book, on the whole, 

 excellent for the time at which it appeared (1828), but which is now useless, — 

 Fleming's British Animals. We have much pleasure in recommending, in its 

 stead, Mr. Jenyns's Manual of British Vertebrate Animals (8vo., 1835), a 

 highly creditable volume. Pennant's British Zoology, once a popular book, may 

 now safely be laid aside, but his Arctic Zoology, with figures (3 vols., 4to., 1792), 

 is excellent. Shaw's Naturalists Miscellany and Zoological Lectures are not now 

 highly thought of. Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne has passed 

 through innumerable editions. It is a perfect model for the spirit in which 

 it is written, and will ever be esteemed valuable. Nor ought we to forget the 

 " amiable wanderer," Charles Waterton, Esq., of Walton Hall, in this county, 

 whose delightful and original Wanderings in South America has passed through 

 three editions. 



We must, however, now retrograde a little in order to notice a few works of 

 older date, and amongst these Brisson's Regnum Animate, Swainson's Zoological 

 Illustrations* and Richardsons and Swainson's FaunaBoreali Americana (3 vols.) 



