New Puhlicutiuns. 405 



to cxaniiiie the museum of Fort Pitt, Chatham, and of Haslar 

 Hospital, and to Dr Horseficld, for the facilities which he gave 

 me of seeing the reptiles in the Museum of the Indian House, 

 and moi'c especially of comparing and copying the drawings 

 made under the superintendance of Dr Hamilton in India. 



" Besides those who assisted me with specimens, I cannot for- 

 get the kindnesses shewn me by Prince Massena, Bai'on Ferus- 

 sac, and IM. Deshayes, at Paris ; Professor Reinwardt, at Ley- 

 den; Professors Kunth and Ehrenberg, at Berlin; and Herren, 

 Oken, Fischer, Otto, Boie, and numerous other German, Swe- 

 dish, and Danish naturalists, at Hamburgh, in whose society I 

 spent one of the happiest weeks of my life. The opportunity 

 of examining the museums of the north of Europe not occurring 

 till the body of the monograph was printed, I have been re- 

 duced to the necessity of adding the remarks and additional 

 species as an Appendix. To this Appendix have also been 

 added descriptions of some drawings of Chinese species, sent by 

 Mr Reeves to General Hardwicke, which will be shortly figured 

 in a work on the zoology of that country, now in the press; and 

 also the synonyma of Dr Wagler's System der Amphibien, 

 which has but lately arrived in London. 



" I have to regret that, after every inquiry and considerable 

 delay on its account, I have not been able to procure the last 

 parts of the Annals of the Lyceum of New York, in which I 

 understand M. Le Conct has given descriptions of the American 

 species of tortoises."" 



4. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Nortlmmber- 

 land, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Vol. i. Part 2. 4to. 

 Pp. 80. 



This Part of the Transactions of the active Newcastle So- 

 ciety, contains five memoirs; L Remarks on the Geology of the 

 Banks of the Tweed, from Carham in Northumberland to the 

 sea coast at Berwick ; by N. J. Winch, Esq. — 2. On the Red 

 Sandstone of Berwickshire; by Henry Witham, Esq. These 

 two memoirs embrace several points in common, and go, in the 

 opinion of the authors, to shew that the secondary rocks belong 

 to the coal formation. — 3. Notice of the Edge Seams of Mid- 



