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produced if our Zoological Society would attach illustrative plates to their 

 very valuable ' Proceedings,' and give them the form of a Journal, as has 

 lately been done by the Geological Society. 



A work closely connected with the ' Magazin de Zoologie ' is the ' Revue 

 Zoologique de la Societe Cuvierienne,' the object of which is to assert with- 

 out loss of time the claims of any zoological discovery, by publishing brief 

 but adequate descriptions of new species. The multitude of labourers now 

 at work in the same field, and the importance of adhering to the rule of pri- 

 ority as the Imsis of systematic zoological nomenclature, render it necessary 

 to publish rapidly and diffuse widely the first announcements of new disco- 

 veries. The delays incident to the engraving of plates and the printing of 

 memoirs in scientific Transactions have often robbed original discoverers 

 of their due credit, and introduced confusion and controversy into science : 

 and it is to remedy this evil that the valuable though unpretending ' Revue 

 Zoologique ' was established. 



Original descriptions of new species ax'e scattered so widely that it is im- 

 possible to notice all the recent works in which they occur, and I must there- 

 fore confine myself to simply enumerating the more important. Of regular 

 periodical works devoted to natural history in general, and including original 

 contributions to ornithology, I may mention (in addition to those above no- 

 ticed) the ' Zoological Journal ;' Ainsworth's ' Edinburgh Journal of Natural 

 and Geographical Science,' 1829 ; Loudon's and Charlesworth's ' Magazine of 

 Natural History;' Sir W. Jardine's 'Magazine of Zoology and Botany;' 

 Taylor's 'Annals of Natural History;' and the popular rather than scientific 

 ' Field Naturalist's Magazine ' of Prof. Rennie ; the ' Naturalist ' of Mr. Ne- 

 ville Wood; and the 'Zoologist' of Mr. E. Newman. Among foreign pe- 

 riodicals are Oken's 'Isis;' Wiegmann's ' Archiv ;' Kroyer's ' Naturhistorisk 

 Tidskrift;' Van der Hoeven's ' Tijdschrift fur Natuurlijke Geschiedenis ;' 

 Wiedemann's ' Zoologisches Magazin;' ' Physiographisk Tidskrift,' Lund; 

 Rohatzsch's 'Munich Journal;' the ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles;' 

 MuUer's ' Archiv f iir Anatomic ;' Silliman's ' American Journal of Science,' 

 ' Boston Journal of Natural History,' and the scientific journals of India, 

 Tasmania and South Africa, which I mentioned when speaking of the orni- 

 thology of those regions. Among the authorized publications of scientific 

 societies, ornithological details of greater or less amount will be found in the 

 * Philosophical Transactions ; ' the ' Proceedings and Transactions of the 

 Zoological Society ;' the Transactions of the Linnsean, the Cambridge 

 Philosophical, the Newcastle and the Wernerian Societies ; the ' Bulletin 

 de la Societe Philomathique des Pyrenees orientales ;' ' Actes de la Soc. Lin- 

 neenne de Bordeaux ;' ' Memoires de la Soc. Linneenne de Calvados ;' ' Bul- 

 letin de I'Academie Royale des Sciences de Bruxelles;' 'Memoires' and 

 ' Comptes Rendus de I'Academie Royale de France ;' ' Annales du Musee 

 d'Histoire Naturelle ;' ' Annales de la Soc. Linneenne de Paris ;' ' Memoires 

 de la Soc. d'Emulation d' Abbeville ;' 'Memoires de la Soc. Academique de 

 Falaise ;' ' Memoires de la Soc. Royale de Lille ;' ' Memoires de I'Academie 

 de Metz;' 'Memoires de la Soc. des Sciences Naturelles de Neufchatel ;' 

 'Memoires de laSoc.de Physique de Geneve;' ' Jahrbuch der Naturfor- 

 schenden Gesellschaft zu Halle;' 'Nova Acta Academiae Csesareee Naturae 

 Curiosorum;' ' Abhandlungen der Baierischen Akademie der Wissenschaften;' 

 ' Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin ;' ' Kongl. Ve- 

 tenskaps Akademiens Handlingar,' Stockholm ; ' Memoires ' and ' Bulletins de 

 I'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St, Petersbourg ;' ' Annales Universi- 

 tatis Casaneusis ;' ' Memoires' and ' Bulletins de la Soc. des Naturalistes de 

 Moscou;' 'Annale delle Scienze Naturali di Bologna;' ' Nuovo Giornale 



