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Reptiles and eighty-two Fishes are noted in a new portion of Mr. Eyton’s 
attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and N. Wales; and, in an addi- 
tional piece of his specimen of the New Zealand botany, Mr. Cunningham 
particularises twenty-seven species, making 552 the number of his catalogue. 
From Mr. Thomson’s pen, there is an interesting paper on an apparently 
undescribed species of Lepadogaster, which he denominates L. cephalus, and 
on the Gobius minutus of Muller, and Cyclopterus minutus of Pallas, which 
the writer considers as the young of Cyclopterus /umpus, with much appear- 
ance of certainty. Over five bibliographical notices, you pass 10 the proceed- 
ings of the Linnzan, Geological and Zoological Societies, and of the Royal 
Irish Academy. For Miscellanies, there is a note on the genus Syngnathus ; 
then comes a report on the influence of native magnesia on the germination, 
vegetation and fructification of vegetables, and then the meteorological tables 
and observations. 
The Naturalist ; illustrative of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms. 
with engravings; edited by Neville Wood, Esquire; royal 8vo. London, 
1838-9. 
No. XXV, Ocroser.—Mr. Drosier takes the precedence in this month’s 
publication, with “interesting notes” on the habits of the Gasterosteus 
trachurus, or roughtailed tickleback, in Russia; and, next in course, come 
Mr. Buist’s observations on certain singular phenomena connected with the 
deposition of mind in the river Tay. In a conversational sort of speculation 
on the abuse of prints in works of natural history, we are edified by an ex- 
position of the notions of Mr. Rylands on that recondite subject. The next 
seven pages of his own periodical are occupied by a characterestic exhibition 
of Mr. Wood’s sentences under the words “ Gould’s Birds of Europe ;” and 
this is followed by Mr. Hall’s on the habits and peculiarities of British 
plants, and on the derivations of their Latin names. By way of “ corres- 
pondence,” you have Mr. Bensted addressing the “ Editor of the Natura- 
list” on the destruction of game by rats, on the necessity of freedom in 
scientific inquiry, and on the destruction of foliage by insects; and then you 
arrive at the Editor’s affable reply, wherein he professes the magnanimity of 
advocating the cause of truth apart from all mercenary considerations! For 
a “chapter of criticism,” there are an apparent confirmation of Mr. Buist’s 
statement that Columba palumbus, the ring-pigeon, eats the bulbs of turnips, 
and Mr. Rilands’ question “ Is Papilio podalirius a British insect,” with his a- 
vowal that he feels inclined to retain himself as special pleader in favour of its 
claims to be ranked as one of the British butterflies. From this instructive 
chapter, you pass on to a memoir of Dr. Latham, whom all the world knew 
“almost exclusively as an ornithologist :” this remarkably modest and philo- 
sophical compilation is enriched with a portrait of the Doctor, and with an 
epistle indited by him in the ninety-siath year of his age, for the seeming 
purpose of saying that the book on the “British Song Birds” is a very 
interesting book, and particuliarly adapted to charm as well as to enlarge 
young minds! The section composed of some of the Proceedings of the 
British Association, and of the geological, royal, horticultural, and entomo- 
