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vorous Cetacea. From the dimensions of the cranium, it would 

 appear thai the Toxcdon Platensis must have been as large as 

 the colossal megatherium. The osteological details are given 

 in a most interesting manner ; but we regret that our limits 

 prevent us entering into details. The next extinct fossil ani- 

 mal described is named Macraucheiiia Paiag'onica, which is 

 a ir.ammiferous quadruped, referable to the order Pachyder- 

 mata, but with affinities to the Ruminantia, and especially to 

 the Camelidas. This is a very beautiful piece of investigation, 

 and proves the singular address and skill of our author, — for, 

 furnished only with a few bones of the trunk and extremities, 

 without a fragment of tooth or of cranium, to serve as a guide 

 to the animal's position in the zoological scale, he has been able 

 to refer it to its place in the system. 



2. Malacologia Monensis ; by Edward Forbes, Esq., President of 



the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. Carfrae & Son, 

 Edinburgh. Pp. 63, with plates. 



This interesting natural history of the mollusca of the Isle of 

 Man and the neighbouring sea, is the first publication of an 

 accomplished and intelligent young gentleman, whose extensive 

 scientific knowledge and acquirements entitle us to look for- 

 ward with pleasure to his promised account of the higher ani- 

 mals, and also the plants, of his native isle. 



3. Essay on the Antiquity of the Hindoo Medicine ; by Professor 



RoYLE of King's College, London. 8vo, pp. 196. W. H. 

 Allen & Co., Leadenhall Street, London. 



This very amusing and cuiious volume, has been already so 

 fully noticed in the different literary and medical journals, that 

 we have only the agreeable duty of recommending it to the 

 notice of our general and medical readers. 



JJiat of Patents granted in Scotland from 29ih December 1837 

 to VMh March 1838 inclusive. 



1. To William Neale Clay of West Bromwich, in the county of Staf^ 

 ford, manufacturing chemist, for an invention of " improvements in the 

 manufacture of iron." — 29th December 1837. 



2. To James Macnee, coach-maker, George Street, Edinburgh, for an 



