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On the First of January, 1838, ivill be published, 

 Price Two Shillings, 



No. I. OF Vol. II. (New Series) of 

 THE MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



CONDUCTED BY 



EDAVARD CHARLESWORTH, F.G.S., &c. 



ZOOLOGICAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY TU THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES DE CARLE SOWERBY, ESQ. 



1 HE following Communications will appear in the early 

 Numbers: — Description of a new Species of Ray, found on the 

 British Coast. By Jonathan Couch, F.L.S. — New Arrange- 

 ment of the Sharks, including Descriptions of many new 

 Forms. By Professor Muller of Berlin and Dr. Henle. — 

 Revision of Cuvier's Genus Scyllium, including the new Sub- 

 genera of Professor Mliller, and Descriptions of many new 

 Species from the Cape. By Dr. Andrew Smith, Superintend- 

 ent of the late Exploring Expedition to Central Africa. — On 

 the Discovery of a Specimen of the Argentine (Scolepus Hum- 

 boldtii Cnv.) in the Frith of Forth. By Dr. W. B. Clarke ; 

 with a Drawing taken from the Specimen, and some additional 

 Remarks by Mr. Yarrell. — On the Botany in the Neigh- 

 bourhood of Tring. By Richard Chambers, F.L.S., &c. 



— On some Peculiarities in the Skull of the Chetah, or Hunt- 

 ing Leopard. By William Martin, F.L.S., &c. — On the 

 Discovery of some new Genera of Mammiferous Animals in 

 the English Tertiary Deposits. By Edward Charles- 

 worth, F.G.S., &c. — On the Septa formed in the Apices 

 of some Species of LTnivalve Shells. By John Edward 

 <jrRAY, F.R.S., President of the Botanical Society of London. 



— Monograph on the Family of Mutillidse. By W. E. 

 Shuckard, Vice-President of the Entomological Society. — 

 Observations on some of the wild Animals of Germany. By 

 W. Weissenborn, Ph. D. — Description of a new Genus of 

 Trochidea. By G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S. — Illustrations of 

 the Geology of the South-East of Dorsetshire. By the Rev. 

 W. B. Clarke. — Observations on the Flints found in the 

 Neighbourhood of Blackheath and other parts of Kent. By 

 J. Mitchell, LL.D. — Remarks upon the Formation of Valleys 

 in the Secondary and Primary Rocks. By Dr. William Smith. 



— Catalogue of the Shells found in the Red and Coralline 



