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XLTI. Notices respect big New Books. 



Organic Remains of a former IVorld. An Examination of 

 the Mineralized Remains of the Fegetahles and Animals 

 of the Antediluvian World, generally termtd Extraneous 

 Fossils. By James Parkinson. The second Vol. 4to. 



We have nuich pleasure in announcing the appearance of 

 this volume, containing the Fossil Zoophytes, and illustrated 

 with 20 plates. To say that there is no falling ofF in this 

 volume, either in point of execution or embellishment, would 

 not be doing sufncient justice to Mr. Parkinson. The 

 work improves in every respect in its progress ; nor could il 

 be otherwise in the hands of a person possessing that in- 

 dustry and acuteness which are so discernible in the present 

 performance; for new specimens and unabating research 

 cannot but furnish fresh means for further investigation, and 

 must frequently ascertain points that were before doubtful. 



From a careful review of this volume, compared with the 

 first, we think the author is justified in the conclusion he 

 has drawn, that traces of but few of those species of orgat- 

 nised beiuffs which now exist can be discovered in the fossil 

 state. Indeed we should have been inclined to conclude, 

 that of all the varieties that have been discovered, not one 

 of them can be identified with any living species. 



Our limits do not permit our giving a longer e-xtract 

 than the following, which is the last letter but one in the 

 volume, and which contains the author's " General remarks 

 on the fossils already described," and the " Conclusions." 

 he has drawn from the circumstances which have come un- 

 der his observation. 



" In the series of letters composing the former volume, 

 various facts were adduced, in proof of the solid part of this 

 globe having, ^t some very distant period, been covered by 

 water. An u.iexpected circumstance was at the same time 

 noticed : — hardly any agreement could be found between the 

 fossil vegetable remains and those vegetables with which the 

 earth is at present clothed ; and in the present volume, an 

 equal want of agreement has been observed between the 



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