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and four thousand one hundred seals, and returned with 700 tuns of oil, 

 and 600 quintals of whalebone. 



Throughout, these volumes are plentifully illustrated, and at the head of 

 each section of tlie second, is a wood-cut, either of the animal to be de- 

 scribed, or of his dental system, or of any important peculiarities which he 

 may present. 



The descriptions throughout are free from unnecessary technicalities, 

 and calculated to be understood even by those who have not made the sub- 

 ject a part of their previous studies. 



A Hlslonj of British Fishes. By JF. Yarrell, F.L.S. Part I. 8vo. pp. 48. 

 London, Van Voorst. 



This is a work on British Fishes, similar in its plan to the celebrated 

 volumes of Bewick upon the Birds. Each species is illustrated by a wood- 

 cut; and to the descriptions are appended vignettes, representing the head, 

 scales, air bladder, or some other peculiarities for which the species may 

 be remarkable. 



The general arrangement followed is that of Cuvier ; but the author hns 

 availed himself also of the recent observations of Agassiz, besides incorpo- 

 rating into the work a very large proportion of original information. We 

 must necessarily defer, until a larger portion of the work shall be com- 

 pleted, any regular observations upon it. 



The book will bind up uniformly with Bewick's Birds, and, if the future 

 parts equal that which is before us, will be far superior to Bewick in point 

 of scientific description, and will equal him in the execution of the cuts, if 

 not in the humour of the vignettes. 



Relation between Crime and Instruction. 



Essai sur la Statistique Morale de la France, par A. M. Guerry, 4to. 

 pp. 70. Paris, Crochard ; Bristol, Hardwick. 



It is a strong evidence of the increased accuracy of the present age, that 

 many subjects, hitherto treated of in a loose and inconclusive manner, are 

 now brought to the test of observation j so that where formerly we had a 

 moral essay, we now have a numerical demonstration. 



Statistics have already been applied to the solution of several high 

 political problems, — criminal legislation, the laws governing the increase of 

 population, the estimation of the wealth, agricultural and commercial, of 

 nations, have thus been approached ; but to the enumeration and classifica- 

 tion of human actions, and above all, to the appreciation of the motives 

 which led to them, this advantageous method has hitherto scarcely been 

 supposed applicable, or at least has not to any great extent been applied, 

 before the appearance of this volume. The contents are divided into an 



