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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



1. Bibliographia Palceontliologica Animalium Systematica. Auctore 



G. F. DE Waldheim. Mosquse, 1834. 



This well arranged, generally accurate, and comprehensive 

 Bibliography of Fossil Animals, we consider an important addi- 

 tion to the works already published on this subject. It will 

 prove useful to those studying or writing on the geological his- 

 tory of extinct animals. 



2. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy. By Dr Grant, Professor of 

 Comparative Anatomy and Zoology, London University. Part 

 1st, Osteology, Ligaments, and Muscles. Illustrated with 65 

 Wood Cuts. J. B. Bailliere, London. 



When this valuable outline, destined, we trust, to become the 

 manual of Comparative Anatomy for our students, is completed 

 (promised before October next), we shall lay before our readers 

 an analysis of it. 



3> Aide-Memoire du Voyageur, ou Qtiestions relatives a la Geographie 

 Physique et Politique ; a l' Industrie et aux Beaux-Arts, SfC. A 

 I' Usage des Personnes qui veulent utiliser leur Voyages. Par Jag. 

 R. Jackson. Paris, 1834. Small 8vo. pp. 534, and 4to, Vol. ii. 

 Tables. 



We recommend this useful work to the attention of those in- 

 tending to visit with advantage different countries, or who may 

 be required to furnish instructions for scientific and literary pur- 

 poses to travellers, because it contains a very full series of ques- 

 tions in regard to the more important departments of physical 

 geography, statistics, politics, and the fine arts. 



4. Exposition qfthe Principles of Mr James Lang's inventionfor Spin- 

 ning Hemp info Rope-yams by Machinery, and its effect on the 

 Strength and Durability of Cordage. By Macnab & Co. Greenock. 

 1835. 



" It was only towards the end of the 18th century that the art of Rope- 

 making engaged the attention of scientific men, and began to be conducted 

 on scientific principles. Then it was discovered, that by the mode of opera- 

 tion formerly in use, the yarns could not be brought to bear equally with 

 each other ; and, therefore, that a great loss of strength in the rope behoved 



