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parts of the island would publish similar local lists, and illustrate 

 them in the same judicious manner as is done by Dr More. Our 

 space does not permit us to enter into details. We may, how- 

 ever^ notice, that a specimen of that rarest of all British, even 

 of all European, birds, the Jlca imperinis or great awk, was 

 picked up dead near Lundy island. Was this the specimen Mr 

 Stevenson got in St Kilda, and which made its escape from the 

 lighthouse-keeper of Pladda, when on its way to Edinburgh ? 



8. A Geological Manual. By Henry T. De La Beeche, F. R.S., 

 F.G.S,&c. 1831. Pp.550. 104 Wood-cuts. 8vo. 



PiioFEssoR Jameson's Works, and those of other British 

 geologists, being out of print, MacCulloch's System of Geology, 

 being very abstruse, and therefore' not fitted for the student, and 

 Mr Lyeirs Principles but in progress, the student and practical 

 geologist were in want of a guide for their studies and investiga- 

 tions. The appearance, therefore, of a Manual of Geology, 

 from an observer so experienced as Mr de la Beeche, was most 

 opportune. AVe have given the " Manual of Geology" full con- 

 sideration, and hesitate not, althoifgh it contains views and state- 

 ments to which we cannot subscribe, to recommend it to the at- 

 tention of geologists, as containing a very interesting and use- 

 ful view of the present state of geology, particularly of that de- 

 partment at present most studied, viz. the natural history of 

 alluvia, tertiary and secondary deposits, with their accompany- 

 ing plutonian and volcanic rocks. Its convenient size, indepen- 

 dent of its other merits, will secure it a place in the knapsack of 

 every travelling geologist ; and even those who cultivate this 

 most fascinating branch of science only in their cabinet and 

 library, will find they cannot be without it. . 



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

 the United States, hy Wilson and Bonaparte. 4 vols. Edin. 1831. 

 Edited by Professor Jameson. 



This delightful popular work is now before the British public, 

 and in a form which i enders it in every way much more acces- 

 sible than the very expensive and unarranged American work. 

 Professor Jameson has been careful to see that this edition con- 



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