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Silurian " Lamp-shells," or Brachiopoda ; he is truly the gold- 

 medallist of invertebrate pal8eontolog3\ His Monographs are 

 altogether his. He draws the wood-cuts, he draws those beautiful 

 lithographs ; everything is done withhis own hand. Here are fifteen 

 quarto plates, each of which, to look at it, must have been a good 

 ten days' work to draw, even after his great experience of the 

 group. How he must love liis task to stick by it so manfully 

 year after year ! There are more than eighty-eight species and 

 varieties, many of Avhich have a dozen figures in illustration of one 

 species. 



(D.) The worthy Professor Phillips adds Part IV. to the British 

 Belemnites, which so many years ago he took under his care. The 

 seven plates (which include three double-sized ones) were executed 

 in Paris, from drawings sent out by Mr. Phillips. They exhibit 

 well the beauty and clearness of French lithography. A great 

 deal, however, depends on the printer. The Professor gives the 

 positions and horizons of twenty species of Belemnites in the strata 

 of the Yorkshire coast, from the Leda-beds to the Lower Lias shale, 

 prepared from his own careful observation, as taught him by his 

 uncle, William Smith, the father of English Geology, the man who 

 was the first to show that strata could be identified by their fossils. 



(E.) Professor Owen has added a third part to his Monograph 

 on the Fossil Eeptilia of the Kimmeridge Clay, belonging to the 

 genus Pliosaurus. In Plates I., IL, and III. he gives views of 

 the under or palatal surface of the skull of Pliosaurus grandis, 

 and of the upper surface of the lower jaw of the same animal, 

 portion of premaxiUary (natural size), jaw, and parts of crania of 

 Pliosaurus trochanterius, from the Kimmeridge Clay, Dorsetshire ; 

 collected and presented to the British Museum by J. C. Mansel, 

 Esq. The head of P. grandis must have been nearly six feet in 

 length, and reminds one (especially the lower jaw) of the cachalot 

 or sperm-whale. Lastly, the Professor figures a very perfect paddle 

 of Pliosaurus 2^orilandicus, from the Portland Oohte of the Isle 

 of Portland ; also in the British Museum. 



(F.) Messrs. Boyd Dawkins and W. A. Sanford add Part III. 

 to their British Pleistocene FelidcV, including Felis speleea, Goldf., 

 and Felis lijnx, Linn. Two single and two double plates are 

 occupied with figures of the limb-bones and pelvic-bones of F. 

 s'pelsea, and one plate with the skull and lower jaw of the Lynx. 

 Of this new cave mammal the authors observe, there is sufficient 

 evidence to prove that the animal was specifically identical with 

 the Felis (lynx) horealis of Norway, or with the variety F. (lynx) 

 cervarai of Siberia. The discovery of the Lynx, a carnivore 

 hitherto unknown in Britain, was made by Dr. Eansom in a 

 fissure that penetrates the Permian Limestone in Pleasley Vale, 

 Derbyshire, termed " The Yew-tree Cave." 



