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it. This was followed by the appearance, in the next year, of the 

 first volume of Shaw's costly but inaccurate compilation, y'clept 

 General Zoology or Syslemalic Nalin^al Hislory. Numerous vo- 

 lumes have subsequently appeared. Whether the work have yet 

 attained a sickly maturity, or died of sheer exhaustion in its 

 vaccilating progress, we have never felt sufficient interest in its 

 ^ate to take the trouble of inquiring. The Ornithological Depart- 

 ment, apparently the best of the W( rk, hap, we believe, been exe- 

 cuted by Mr. Stephens, of entomological celebrity. Mr. Stewart's 

 very useful tlemeiits, consisting of two octavo volumes, came out at 

 Edinburgh about the same period. It has long been out of print : 

 and in 1806, Dr. Turton gave to the literary world, two important 

 publications : the one, a Systematic Description of British Animals, 

 under the objectionable title of The British Fauna ; the other, a 

 General System of Nature, in seven octavo volumes, translated prin- 

 cipally from Gmelin's edition of Linnaeus, with numerous additions 

 and corrections, and a " life of Linne." Both of these works of 

 Dr. Turton may be consulted, by the student, with great advantage. 

 The twelfth and last Edition of the Sy sterna Naturce of the '^im- 

 mortal Swede" was, we may observe in passing, published, in three 

 octavo volumes, in 1766 : the closet-compilation of Gmelin, ten 

 octavo volumes, in 1790. The latter teems with errors. 



The year 1816 was distinguished in the annals of Zoology, by the 

 appearance of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom — Regfie Animal, — a work, 

 consisting of four octavo volumes ; for the value of which the name 

 alone of the illustrious author constitutes a sufficient pledge. A 

 second Edition of it, in five volumes, — the last two comprehending 

 the Crustacea, Arachnides, and Insecta, by the celebrated Latreille, 

 — was published in 1829 ; and a Series of exquisite engravings, 

 illustrative of it, under the title of Iconographie du Regne Animal, 

 is now in progress of publication by M. Guerin, of Paris. Each 

 number (livraison) — fifty of which will complete the work — con- 

 tains ten plates, plain or coloured. We greatly prefer the former. 

 Thirty-seven of these numbers have already appeared. Of the Eng- 

 lish translation of the First Edition of Cuvier's work, by " Edward 

 Griffith and others," or of the choice and execution of the figures 

 accompanying, rather than illustrating, it, we lament our inability 



