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animal life were the objects to which he chiefly devoted his atten- 

 tion. The management and control of the whole Zoological 

 Department of the Encyclopaedia Britannica were undertaken 

 by him and most ably executed. His authorship, on this work 

 alone, comprises 900 pages, or equal to wine ordinary octavo 

 volumes. He contributed the articles, Angling, Animal Kingdom f 

 Animalculae, Entomology, Helminthology, Ichthyology, Mammalia 

 Ornithology, Reptiles and Serpents. He also published " Illus- 

 trations of Zoology, with historical and descriptive details," folio 

 1851: " Entomologia Edinensis " 1834; the piscatory part of 

 "The Rod and the Gun " 1840 ; "Illustrations of Scripture by an 

 animal painter, with notes by a Naturalist" 1842. These besides 

 numerous articles on his favourite studies in Blackwood, the 

 North British Review and other Magazines were the products of 

 his pen. The main features of Mr, Wilson's character were, its 

 meekness of wisdom, warmth of affection, and unostentatious all- 

 comprehending kindness. There was in him a happy harmony of 

 contrasted qualities, — scientific accuracy without pendantry and 

 an unclogged excursive imagination, — fantastic playfulness with 

 strong affection, and steadfast purpose, — freshness of feeling with 

 width of innocent enjoyment, co-existing with great tenderness of 

 conscience and faith unfeigned. He was preeminently a Christian 

 Naturalist. This Memoir is prepared by one of the most genial 

 and happy writers of the present day, and is a beautiful eloge of 

 one whose character and labours will long be remembered and 

 admired by the students of Natural History. We cordially com- 

 mend this book to the Scientific and Christian reader as an 

 interesting and delightful record of a beautiful, vigorous and 

 useful life. a. j. k. 



The Use and Abuse of Tobacco. By John Lizars, M. D., 

 late Professor of Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons, 

 Edinburgh. Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakston. Montreal : 

 B. Dawson & Son. Eighth edition, pp. 138. 



The object of the author in the publication of this little, but 

 most pregnant book, is, if possible, to correct the progress of 

 Tobacco smoking, and other forms of its use. He finds it diffi- 

 cult to estimate the pernicious consequences produced by habitual 

 smoking, on the number of victims, both old and young. The 

 consumption of Tobacco in Britain alone, in the year 1853, 



