New PuUicutions. 409 



tained the whole letter-press of the original, but arranged accord- 

 ing to a system, which is nearly that of the celebrated Illiger. 

 The fourth volume contains the whole of Bonaparte's Birds of 

 America, with many additional histories of the feathered creation, 

 from Audubon, and the still unpublished Arctic Ornithology of 

 Richardson and Swainson. To the scientific ornithologist the 

 views and arrangements of Brehm, almost unknown to the or- 

 nithologists of Britain, and here given for the first time, will be 

 read with interest. A general Index might have been ap- 

 pended, although not-particularly wanted in a popular work, 

 where every volume has its table of contents ; but we under- 

 stand the proprietors being unwiUing to increase the expense of 

 the work to the pubhc, the editor yielded to their wishes, and 

 closed the volume without the index. As a proof of the interest 

 this work is exciting, we may add, that the plates of the original 

 works are re-engraving and publishing. Three editions are now 

 in progress, one in folio, another in royal octavo, a third the 

 size of the Edinburgh edition of Wilson and Bonaparte, and, 

 as stated in the advertisement, intended to bind up with that 

 work. 



List of Patents granted in England, from 15th December 1830, 

 to 2d February 1831. 



1830. 

 Dec. 17. To B. Redfern, Birmingham, gunmaker, " for a lock, break-off, and 

 trigger, upon a new and improved principle, for fowling-pieces, 

 muskets, rifles, pistols, and small fire-arms of all descriptions." 



To A. Graham, a citizen of the United States of North America, 

 but now residing in A\''est Street, Finsbury, London, gentleman, 

 " for certain improvements in the application of springs to car- 

 riages." Communicated by a foreigner. 

 23. To D. Papps, Stanley End, in the parish of King Stanley, Gloces- 

 tershire, machine-maker, " for certain improvements in machinery 

 for dressing or roughing woollen cloths." 



To W. Wood, Summer Hill, Northumberland, near Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, " for the application of a battering-ram to the pur- 

 pose of working coal in mines." 



To M. E. A. Pertins, No. 50, Rue du Bac, Paris, spinster, " for 

 tlie fabrication or preparation of a coal fitted for refining and 

 purifying sugar and other matters." Communicated by a 

 foreigner. 



JULY — sei'ti:mbeu 1831. d d 



