216 JMiscellanies. 
one. ‘This will be borne out by the papers he has published in the 
the Transactions of the Zoological Society,—a work, of which he 
took the prineipal superintendence, and which for general execution, 
stands unrivalled. He is also known as the author of the Tower 
Menagerie, and the Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Soci- 
ety. His name will stand recorded by the Antelope Bennetii, Ortho- 
tomus Bennetii, &c. &c.—Mag. of Zool. and Bot., Edinb. 
The painful news of the death of Dr. William Henry, the well 
known author of a celebrated work on Chemistry, and of many ex- 
cellent memoirs, has been fully confirmed. In the expectation of a 
memoir prepared at the request of the Manchester Literary and Phi- 
losophical Society, by Dr. Wm. Charles Henry, son of the deceased, 
we postpone an obituary notice of this lamented philosopher, and 
ent man, until ampler means of doing justice to his memory are 
placed in our hands. 
East Indian Geology. 
_ At the last moment, we have received from the author, Assistant 
Surgeon John McClelland, an original octavo volume, of 384 pages, 
with full illustrations, and printed in handsome style at Calcutta, 
Bengal, on the Geology, and other topics of Natural History of the 
Province of Kemaon, a portion of the region of the Himalayah 
Mountains. We hail this work with pleasure from this remote re- 
gion, and shall notice it again on a future occasion. 
