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tastes. The usual mode of capturing these animals has hitherto been 

 (as described in the Edinburgh Cabinet Library on Iceland, Greenland, 

 and the Faroe Islands, and in other publications) by a number of boats 

 collecting to seaward of the drove, and driving them into the most acces- 

 sible sandy bay, where, if the fish ground in shallow water, they are speedily 

 dispatched. In this way many hundreds are often slain ; but they are 

 sometimes chased for a considerable distance before being taken ; thus 288 

 were captured on the 21st of June 1843, the chase of which commenced 

 on the 18th, and extended round the islands a distance of about forty miles. 



This year a new method of taking them has for the first time been 

 tried, and with success. A net about 200 fathoms long, 14 deep, and 

 the meshes 1 foot square, has been purchased at the cost of about 

 L.140. The first time it was used 236 were taken, and subsequently, up 

 to the 26th August, about 400 more, — so that the prime cost of the first 

 net will soon be recovered, one-eighth of the capture being set apart for 

 that purpose, and probably more nets will be purchased. 



The same means might be profitably employed in taking these animals 

 on our northern coasts, where they often occur in great numbers. The 

 bones and flesh, if not used as food, might with advantage be employed 

 as manure. W. C. Trevblyan, Esq. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



1. The Invisible Universe disclosed ; or the real Plan and Government 

 of the Universe. By Henry Coleman Johnstone, Esq. London, Eflfing- 

 ham Wilson. 12mo. 1843. 



2. Observations on Days of Unusual Magnetic Disturbance ; mdde at 

 the British Colonial Magnetic Observatories, under the Departments of 

 the Ordnance and Admiralty. Printed by the British Government, un- 

 der the Superintendence of Lieut. -Colonel Edward Sabine, of the Royal 

 Artillery. Part 1. 1840-41. London. Published for Her Majesty's 

 Stationery OflSce, by Longman & Co. 1843. 2to. For this very im- 

 portant volume we are in some measure indebted to Baron Humboldt and the 

 late Duke of Sussex. Lieut.-Colonel Sabine, with his usual ability and accu- 

 racy ^ has edited the work, and presented it to the scientific world in a form 

 worthy of the British Government. 



3. Rapport sur un Memoire de M. F. de Castelnau, relatif au System 

 Silurien de L'Amerique Septentrionale. From the rapporteurs, Elie de 

 Beaumont, Brongniart, Milne Edwards, and Dufrenoy. 4to. 1843. 



4. Rapport sur un Memoire do M. Alcide D'Orbigny, intitule' Con- 

 siderations Generales sur la Geologic de L'Amerique Meridionale. 2to. 

 From M. Elie do Beaumont. 



5. Observations on the Practicability and Utility of opening a Com- 

 munication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, by a Ship Ca- 



