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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



1. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Com^ 

 parative Anatomy. By Thomas Kymer Jones, Professor of Compa- 

 rative Anatomy in King's College, London, &c. 1 vol. 8vo. Pp. 732, 

 with 336 Engravings. John Van Voorst, London. 1841. 



An English work on Comparative Anatomy, brought up to the pre- 

 sent time, has been hitherto a desideratum in our literature. The es- 

 teemed translations of the celebrated works of Blumenbach and Carus, 

 and the British Treatises of Fyfe, Craigie, and Grant, are well known, 

 but these are either in an unfinished state, or much behind the pre- 

 sent state of this rapidly-advancing and fascinating branch of physical 

 science. But in Dr Jones's beautifully illustrated volume now before us, 

 comparative anatomy, in a certain sense, is brought up to the present 

 time, and contains an accurate, judicious, and interesting account of 

 the structure of the lower animals, — such an account indeed as will prove 

 most acceptable and useful to the student of natural history and com- 

 parative anatomy. It has already become the class-book for compara- 

 tive anatomy in some of our Universities. An index is much wanted. 



2. The Olacial Thcoi'^y of Professor Agassiz. By Charles Macla&en, 

 Esq., F.R.S.E., &c. Edinburgh, 1841. 



The Glacial Theory, as proposed and expounded by Professor Agas- 

 siz, has been frequently the subject of discussion in this Journal, and 

 through us it was, we believe, first made generally known to British na- 

 turalists. The publication of the "^ Etudes sur les Glaciers" has put 

 the public in possession of all that Agassiz has observed and thought 

 on this curious subject. The little volume of Mr Maclaren now before 

 us we strongly recommend to our readers, as containing an excellent 

 account of the glacial theory, and also of appearances in the middle dis 

 trict of Scotland, conjectured to be effects of glacial action. 



3. A History of British Starfishes, and other AnimxUs of the cIom Echi- 

 nodermata. By Edward Forbes, Esq., Member of the Wemerian 

 Natural History Society, &c. Illustrated with numerous plates. 8yo. 

 Pp. 267. John Van Voorst, London. 1841. 



The beautiful and interesting animals of this group of the Radiaria, 

 which occur in considerable abundance and variety in our seas, have at 

 different times engaged the attention of British naturalists ; but hitherto 

 no published work contains anything approaching to a complete cfe- 



