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48. [Museum of Natural Sciences.] 13. Second Decade of unde- 



scribed American Plants. (American Monthly Magazine and 

 Critical Review, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 119, 120. 1817.) 



49. [Museum of Natural Sciences.] 14. First Decade of new 



North-American Fishes. (American Monthly Magazine and 

 Critical Review, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 120, 121. 1817.) 



50. [Review of] American Entomology, or Descriptions of the In 



sects of North America, illustrated by coloured figures from 

 drawings executed from nature, by Thomas Say, &c. (Amer 

 ican Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Vol. II, No. 2, 

 p. 143. 1817.) 



Rafinesque does not give this book by Say a very 

 complimentary notice. He says, among other things : 

 &quot;The United States can at last boast of having a learned 

 and enlightened Entomologist in Mr. Say. Those 

 who have preceded him . . . have merely been collec 

 tors . . .&quot; He then proceeds to complain of the cost 

 of the publication, saying, &quot; we are offered an elegant 

 specimen of typography: but the price of it is two 

 dollars. For that sum we have forty pages (of which 

 twelve are quite blank) and six coloured plates, contain 

 ing only eight species (whereof five are new) while 

 they might have included sixty . . .&quot; etc. 



51. [Review of] Descriptio uberior Graminum et Plantarum Cala- 



mariarum Americae septentrionalis, indigenarum et circurum. 

 Auctore D. Henrico Muhlenberg, etc. (American Monthly Mag 

 azine and Critical Review, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 143, 144. 1817.) 



