194 Miscellanies. 
ual fossil fishes, and he gives an interesting account of the great 
number of collections and of localities in Europe, not omitting those 
hitherto published as existing in this country. 
He found most of the ichthyolites in the European Museums in 
great confusion—few of the specimens labelled, and most of those, 
only provisionally, except as to locality. He considers his work as 
being, in regard to vertebral animals, the sequel and conclusion of 
Cuvier’s great work Sur Jes Ossemens Fossiles. 
The work will be in twelve livraisons, at twenty four francs each ; 
making five Volumes quarto for the text, with two hundred and fifty 
plates in folio. After the third livraison the price will be enhanced 
to thirty six francs for each livraison. This vast work is undertaken 
at the private expense of Professor Agassiz, who as we understand 
from a foreign friend, “is a highly intelligent, unassuming, libe 
man,”* who depends upon the scientific world to sustain bim in his 
arduous and costly enterprize. 
We confidently recommend the work to our olheigen and other in- 
stitutions, as well as to individuals whose means are not limit It 
is an honor to the science of the age, and will give celebrity to Prof. 
Agassiz, and to Neufchatel in Switzerland, the place of his residence 
and of his publication. It is presumed that it may be obtained 
through any bookseller in London or Paris, and through their cor- 
respondents in this country. 
Prof. Agassiz invites subscriptions to be addressed directly to him- 
eat. + 
9. Visit of Prof. Agassiz to Mr. Manteli’s Museum at Brighton. 
Remark by the Editor —In Vol. xxi, p. 162, we gave a notice 
of the very interesting and in many respects, unique museum of Mr. 
Mantell, late of Lewes, now of Brighton, England. We now add 
another notice from the pen of Mr. Bakewell;} it is signalized by 
the visit of several eminent men including Prof. Agassiz of Neufchatel, 
of whose great work on fossil fishes we insert a notice. 
Last week, Professor Agassiz visited the Museum of Mr. Gideon 
Mantell, at Brighton, purposely to examine the splendid collection 
* In the abstract of the doings of the great Scientific meeting at Edinburgh, 
Sept. 8, 1834, it will be seen that this gentleman was present, and took a conspicu- 
ous part in all questions relating to fossil ichthyology. 
+ London Athenwum of Noy, 15, 1834. 
