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rary character—juvenile vanity, heartless illiberality, and false representation. 
Mr. Pigott favours the editor with a correspondence professing to be general 
remarks on the Naturalist and natural history ; and the chapter of criticism is 
occupied by a “ few words” of Mr. Lankester’s on the formation of pearl, and 
by some words of his on the Linnean and natural systems of botany. At 
the Liverpool natural history society, the discovery of a large slab of sand- 
stone, “ having upon its lower face a number of casts of feet in high relief,” 
was taken into consideration, and a report of the discussion stands here as a 
“ proceeding” of that institution. The Miscellanies make a chapter of selec- 
tions from Withering’s Botany, the Athenzeum, and other periodicals; and 
with its September number the second volume of the Naturalist is con- 
cluded. 
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