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full: they are accompanied with eleven illustrative figures. Mr. Garner 
begins a memoir on the anatomy of the Lamellibranchiate Conchiferous ani- 
mals: this article appears favourable to Mr. G.’s talent for observation and 
his acquaintance with the philosophy of natural history. Mr. Von Meyer’s 
recent researches in Fossil Zoology relate, in continuation, to the Ascotus 
longimanus, Chalydra murchisonii, Lagomys eningensis, Palacotherium ichin- 
git, Rhinoceros incisivus, tichorhinus, and goldfusii, Mastodon angustidens and 
turicense, Chalicomys jugerii and minutus, Oxygotherium escheri, Microtheri- 
um rengen, Emys heischeri, Cheropotamus meissoreri, Dinotherium bavaricum, 
and giganteuwm, Manutus studeri, Harpagon maximus and the Testudo anti- 
qua : in a projected work on Fossil Zoology, the author illustrates these and 
his other ‘ examinations” with figures executed on a new plan, allowing of 
their being measured without the compass. You now arrive at No. 11 of 
Mr. Blyth’s analytic descriptions of the groups of birds composing the order 
Strepitores, and here he treats of the Buceroides or hornbill and hoopoé 
tribes. The first of these “tribal families” he denominates the Appendiros- 
tres, from their having beaks furnished with an appendage; the other, he 
names Arculirostres, from their bills being slightly arcuated. Mr. B.’s re- 
marks are evidently deduced from close and extensive observation, and they 
communicate much useful knowledge concerning the physiology and habits 
of the buceroidal birds. Mr. Westwood illustrates his curious experimen 
tal notes on the natural history of Myrmeleon formicarium, the ant lion, with 
a figure, which represents the larva of this ingenious creature working its 
way into sand. In a communication on the artificial arrangement of some of 
the more extensive natural orders of British plants, Mr. Bird exhibits “ ta- 
bular analyses of genera, in which many of the more obscure features are 
disregarded, and the name of the genus arrived at without having recourse 
to minute dissection or indefinite characters :” experience will determine 
the practicability of Mr. Bird’s scheme ; it possesses the advantage of being 
simple, and holds out the fairest prospects of being convenient and useful for 
facilitating the investigations of young botanists. Mr. Wright addresses ob- 
servations on a rare British dolphin, to the editor: this was the Delphinus 
tursio, shot off Torquay in September of the present year: minute descrip- 
tions of the stuffed specimen convey good representations of its size and 
relative proportions. A few British plants are noted by Mr. Luxford: he 
speaks of the Teesdalia nudicaulis, Lycopodium selago, L. inundatum, Dian- 
thus caryophyllus, Phyteuma orbiculare, Campanula glomerata, Parnassia pa- 
lustris, Statice spathulata, Crithmum maritimum, Ajuga chamepelys, Althza 
hirsuta, Arenaria peploides, A. marina, A. serpyllifolia, A. trinervis, A. ciliata, 
A. verna, A. rubella, Orchis maculata, O. pyramidalis, O. fusea, O. latifolia, 
Ophrys apifera, Liparis leselit, Gymnadenia conopsea, Silene anglica, Centau- 
rea solstitialis, Calluna vulgaris, Erica tetralir, Alchemilla alpina, Potentilla 
argentea. Mr. L.’s notes have some value, but they display little appear- 
ance of being imparted in a generous spirit. Dr. Weissenborn “returns 
once more to the subject of Spontaneous Generation,” in a belligerent arti- 
cle, and this is followed by another of the same kind, about “an undescriba- 
ble muscle in the eyes of fishes.” After two reviews and two brief notices 
of works published in periodical parts, the short communications close the 
November ; and these concern the pied fly-catcher, shot at Mount Edge- 
cumbe; the northern diver, killed near Plymouth; and the secale cornutum, 
