iv CONTENTS. 



UOTANY. 



15. Localities of rare British Plants. l6. Dimensions of a 

 Larch Tree, cut down at Wallington, Northumberland, 

 May 1831. 1 7- On a New Vegetable Razor-Strap, 593-4 



ZOOLOGY. 



18. The Extinct Dodo. IQ. Bengal Tiger found in Siberia. 

 20. Footmarks of Man and Lower Animals. 21. De- 

 struction of Live Stock by 'Wolves in Russia, - 395-7 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



1. Arrian on Coursing. The Cynegeticus of the Younger 



Zenophon, translated from the Greeks with Classical and 

 Practical Annotations, and brief Sketch of the Life and 

 Writings of the Author ; with an Appendix, containing 

 some account of the Canes Venatici of classical antiquity. 

 By a Graduate of Medicine ; with embellishments from 

 the antique. London. 8vo. Pp.314. - - 398 



2. Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds. By Colonel G. 



Montagu, F.L.S. Second Edition. By James Rennie, 

 A.M. Professor of Natural History, King's College, Lon- 

 don, &c. 1 vol. Svo, pp. 650. 1831, - - 402 



3. Synopsis Reptilium, or Short Descriptions of the Species of 



Reptiles. By J. Ed. Gray, Esq. F.L.S. &c. 1 vol. Svo, 

 pp. 90. With Plates. London, 1831, - - ib, 



4. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northum- 



berland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Vol. I. 

 Part 2. Pp. 80. > . . . 405 



5. First Steps in Botany. By Dr Drummond, Belfast. With 



numerous illustrative Wood-Cuts. 1 vol. Svo, - 40G 



6. A Synoptical Table of British Organic Remains. By Sa- 



muel Woodward, H.M.Y. P. S. 1830. Pp.50. Svo, ib. 



7. Transactions of the Plymouth Institution. Vol. I. Svo. 



Pp. 360. 1830, - . - . ib. 



8. A Geological Manual. By Henry T. De la Beche, F. R.S. 



F.G.S., &c. 1831. Pp.550. 104 Wood-cuts. Svo, 408 



9. American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds 



of the United States, by Wilson and Bonaparte. 4 vols. 

 Edin. 1831. Edited by Pi'ofessor Jameson, - ib. 



Art. XXVI. List of Patents granted in England from 15th 



December 1830 to 2d February 1831, 409 



XXVII. List of Patents granted in Scotland from 23d 



June to 23d August 1831, - - 411 



