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Botanical Several important botanical works have appeared, 



■n-orks. rj,jj^ j,j^^^ ^^ j^^^ Holland, by M. de la Billardiere ; 



the magnificent description of the Garden of Malmaisonj 

 by Ventenat, have arrived at their nineteenth livraison. 

 The Flora of Ovare and of Benin, by M. De Beanvois is 

 at its fifth. A fifth volume of the Botaniste Cultivateur 

 of Dumont Courset has appeared, and M. La MaTck 

 has given in conjunction with M. Decandolle, a third 

 edition, greatly enlarged, of his Flora Fran^aise. 



M. dc Bcauvois has begun to publish the insects which 

 he collected on the African and American Coasts. Two 

 parts have appeared. 

 Cuvier on ani- M. Cuvier has continued the two great series of re- 

 mals without searches which he has been engaged npon several years, 

 upon animals without vertebrae, and upon the fossil bones 

 of quadrupeds. In the first of these series he has this year 

 given the anatomy of seven genera ; theScylla, theGlau- 

 cus, the Eolides, the Colymacon, the Limax, the Limna?, 

 and the Planorbe. The two first are very little known, 

 even externally, and the author has rectified the false no- 

 tions of naturalists with regard to them. 



In the second series he treats of the fossil bones of bears, 

 rhinoceros, and elephants. 

 And on the Two species of bears, at present unknown are buried 

 fossil bones of ^j^j^ tygers, hyenas, and other carnivarous animals in a 

 great number of caverns in the mountains of Hungary and 

 Germany. 

 Fossil bones of Boncs of the rhinoceros are found in abundance in the 

 the rhinoceros imcompact grounds in all parts of the globe, where exca- 

 gn e ep lau . nations have been .made. The author has collected noti- 

 ces of more than six hundred pUces of the two continents, 

 where the bones of elephants have been dug up, and very 

 recently the grinders and tusks have been found in the 

 forest of Bondy, in digging the canal which is intended 

 to bring the waters of tlie river Ourque to Paris. The 

 more we advance to the north, the better is the state of 

 preservation of these bones. An island of the Icy Ocean 

 is almost entirely formed of them, 

 —-belong to ex- These facts were in great part known: but it follows 

 tinct species, from the detailed comparison made by Cuvier, of the bones 

 of the rhinoceros and elephants at present living in Africa 



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