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Dr Bouts Researches in Geography, Natural History, q-c. in 

 the European Provinces of Turkey. 



We are happy to have this opportunity of bringing before 

 the notice of our readers a work which, both from the inte- 

 rest attached to the countries treated of, and from the dili- 

 gence and research which it evinces, deserves, we think, a high 

 rank amongst the contributions of modern travellers and na- 

 turalists. Its author, Dr Boue, is one of the most laborious, 

 and, we should add, the most disinterested geologists in Europe. 

 Without being connected with any public institution, he has 

 devoted his life and fortune for the last twenty-five years to ex- 

 tensive travels through every part of Europe, and to the accu- 

 mulation of every kind of information respecting the struc- 

 ture of the globe which he could obtain from books, from lec- 

 tures, or from personal communication with those similarly 

 engaged. 



His first work comprehended the fruits of his labours whilst 

 a student at Edinburgh, and was entitled " Essai Geologique 

 sur I'Ecosse." It is still considered the most complete ge- 

 neral view of the geognosy of that country hitherto published ; 

 and when it appeared, was highly praised by Jameson, his in- 

 structor in geology, and other competent judges. He after- 

 wards published a great variety of Memoirs on the Geology 

 of France and Germany, and an entire volume on that of the 

 latter country, in consequence of which services to science, he, 

 some years ago, was chosen President of the Geological So- 

 ciety of France, a high honour for one who was not a French- 

 man, and who had ever kept aloof from any of the parties and 

 coteries of that metropolis. For the last four years he has 

 been employed wholly in the investigation of the provinces of 

 European Turkey — a strong proof of his zeal for science, as 

 his private means are too limited to allow of his purchasing 

 those comforts which could alone render travelling in such a 

 country endurable to persons of European habits, and as he 

 has never derived the slightest assistance from Government 

 or from any public body. 



How little was known of the provinces he has explored may 

 be seen from the very meagre account given of them in the 

 most authentic work of modern geography, that of Malte Bran. 



