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ties ; and we may also state our opinion that a more detailed ex- 

 position of tlie subject of classification would render this series of 

 papers still more valuable to the class of readers for whom it is de- 

 signed. The third article is a paper by Mr. Samuel Stutchbury, 

 the very efficient and meritorious Curator of the Bristol Institu- 

 tion, read before the Philosophical and Literary Society in March 

 1832. It embodies, in a popular form, an outline of the history 

 of coral reefs and islands, derived in part from various published 

 authorities, but corroborated by the results of the author's personal 

 observations made among the islands of the Dangerous Archipe- 

 lago, and others of the Southern Pacific Ocean. 



A notice of Professor Faraday's recent discoveries with regard to 

 the laws of electro-chemical decomposition, (some time since trans- 

 ferred to our pages) a paper on the interference of the aerial waves 

 propagated by the tuning-fork, by Mr. R. Addams, an article on 

 Horticulture, and another on the Polders of Flanders, conclude the 

 original communications, which are followed by Reviews, and sci- 

 entific notices. These latter terminate the scientific division of the 

 Number ; but we may notice, among the contents of the Second 

 Part, allotted to Literature, as intimately connected with the sub- 

 ject of the natural history of the human species, •* An Ethnogra- 

 phical Memoir on the Nations of Slavonian Race," from the pen 

 of Dr. Prichard. — Regarding the design of the West of England 

 Journal to claim the warmest encouragement, and the specimen of 

 the execution of that design now before us, to be at once deserving 

 of considerable commend ation, and an earnest of future excel- 

 lence, we hope that the success of this work will be such as to ful- 

 fill the wishes of its founders and supporters. 



A List of tivo Thousand Microscopic Objects, tvitk RemarTcs on the 

 Circulation in Animals and Plants, the Method ofvievoing Crystals 

 by Polarized Light, S^c. &^c , forming a Guide for selecting and 

 labelling subjects of Natural History, Botany ^ and Mineralogy for 

 the Microscope. By Andrew Puitchard, Author of the ** Na- 

 tural History of Animalcules," &c.&c. London. I2mo. 

 Great attention has lately been paid to the improvement of the 

 object glasses ofcompound microscopes, which have been brought 

 to a high degree of perfection, and the microscope has in con- 

 sequence become more than ever a popular instrument. Such re- 

 searches as those of Leeuenhoeck, made with a single lens, require 

 a patient, and even painful application of the powers of vision; 

 these investigations of the minutiae of nature may now be pursued 

 with comfort and safety, some important discoveries in the physio- 

 logy of animals and vegetables have already been made in pursuing 

 them, and many more may be with confidence expected. 



To those who possess microscopes this little work will be found 

 to bean acceptable manual. The introductory observations contain 

 some useful hints on preparing and mounting the objects; and as 

 the price is very moderate, we recommend the purchase of two 

 copies, one to cut up for labels for the slides, and one to be pre- 

 served for reference. *^* 



