578 Anulijlical Notices of Books. 



human fossil," discovered near Moret, sufficiently indicates liis 

 opinions on this contested subject, which appear to coincide with 

 those of the best informed observers. The Memoir on the use of 

 the horns in certain animals, and particularly in the Buffalo, by 

 Dr. Bailly, is extremely curious; as is also his description of the 

 fishing filaments of the Lophius piscatorius, a report on which 

 by Geoffroy St. Hilaire, well merits the attention of the reader.* 

 From this too rapid enumeration of the Zoological contents of 

 five numbers of the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, it will be 

 perceived that much valuable information is to be derived from • 

 them ; and it appears highly probable, that should the Editors 

 persevere in the spirited course which they have commenced, 

 their publication will obtain a deservedly extensive circulation, 

 and render the most important services to the advancement of 

 Natural History. 



Memoires de la Societe Linncenne du Calvados. Annee 1824. 

 pp. Ixxii and 300 : planches x. 



In the first number of our Journal it fell to our lot to announce 

 to our readers, and we expressed the pleasure we felt in so doing 

 the formation of a new association for the study of Natural History, 

 at Caen in Normandy, under the title of " La Societe Liiineenne 

 du Calvados." On that occasion we anticipitated the benefits 

 which must result from such a Society, if conducted on liberal 

 principles, and supported by Naturalists zealously devoted to the 

 advancement of their favourite science. These anticipations have 

 not been deceived ; the society has hastened to secure for itself 

 a station in the scientific world, by the publication of a volume of 

 Transactions, destined to record at once its labours and its claims 

 on public attention. That these are considerable may be gathered 

 from the report of its proceedings prior to the 24th May last, in 

 which many papers are mentioned as having been read before the 

 Society, which do not appear in its Transactions, although from 

 the known abilities of several of their authors, M. Lamouroux for 

 example, they would doubtless have merited a place among the 

 * See p. 422 of lliis Joiinial. 



