Notices respecting New Booh. 57 



Country as to its Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures, 



Population, Public Revenue, 8fc. 



These Tables are evidently the result of extensive research 

 and careful calculation. They form a body of valuable do- 

 cuments on the main branches of our national wealth, and 

 they can never fail being - referred to with advantage on sub- 

 jects of similar inquiry. The Author we understand to be 

 recently deceased. He must have been a man of great indus- 

 try, and of no common powers of mind. He seems to have 

 flinched from no labour in the prosecution of his subject, and 

 he has certainly bequeathed to his country a very important 

 collection of facts in our political economy. The price of the 

 work, considering its details, its size, and execution, is un- 

 usually low. 



Works in the Press. 



The following Works are preparing for publication, in quar- 

 terly numbers, by Mr. J. F. Stephens, F.L.S., &c. 



A Catalogue of British Insects, or an Attempt to arrange 

 them according to the Natural System ; with the Synonyma of 

 the principal Authors inserted. 



Illustrations of British Entomology, in which it is proposed 

 to give the generic and specific characters of all the Insects 

 which have hitherto been discovered in Great Britain and Ire- 

 land, and observations on their metamorphosis, food, econo- 

 my, &c. ; accompanied by Figures of the more obscure and in- 

 teresting Species. 



A Monograph on the British Species of the Linnean Genus 

 Sphinx, embellished with correct representations of all the 

 known Species, their larvae and pupae; to which will be added 

 an Appendix, containing a notice (with the characters and 

 figures) of such congenerous Insects of this group as are 

 usually, from bad taste, placed in British Cabinets, either as 

 authentic indigenous specimens or in lieu thereof, to the utter 

 confusion of our knowledge of their geographical distribution. 



The Author's intention, we understand, is to publish the 

 1st number — of the Catalogue on the 1st of May next — of the 

 Illustrations on the 1st of Jime — and of the Monograph on the 

 1st of Jul)', following, and to proceed quarterly with each work 

 until completed. The last work will be in Mo, the others in 8vo. 



ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Curtis s British Entomology. No. 1. 



In the present improving state of Entomology in this coun- 

 try, when so much attention has been drawn to this curious 

 and interesting branch of Natural History by several distin- 

 guished labourers in this field of science, a work on British 



Vol. G3. No. 309. Jan. 1624. H Insects, 



