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interest with which it is read. Tliey consist of a series of views of 

 many of the localities in these kingdoms where researches among the 

 Echinodermata have been conducted. Thus we have from the Isle of 

 Man, Breda Head, the ruins of Peel Castle, and those of St. Ger- 

 main's Cathedral. On the English coast we have Scarboro' and Tyne- 

 mouth. On the Irish, Belfast Bay. On the Scotch, St. Andrew's 

 Castle, the Kyles of Bute, &c. These vignettes in general represent 

 scenery which is in itself picturesque ; some of them are perfect 

 gems — as for example, that of the Frith of Forth, with the Bass 

 Rock and North Berwick Law, and that of Holy Loch, in the Clyde 

 district, during a squall, — all are deserving of commendation, and 

 furnish exquisite examples of the perfection which the art of wood- 

 engraving has now attained. The woodcuts alone are worth, at a 

 very moderate computation, more than the publication price of the 

 entire volume. 



A General History of Animalcules. By A. Pritchard. Part I. 

 London, Whittaker. 

 We have already had occasion to notice this work in a former 

 Number of this Journal, and we have nov/ much pleasure in inform- 

 ing our readers that Mr. Pritchard has thought it expedient to publish 

 the plates of this work, containing upwards of 3500 beautiful figures 

 illustrative of each genus of Infusoria, described by Ehrenberg in his 

 large work in a separate form. In no branch of natural history are 

 drawings of the subjects more requisite, and there is no doubt, from 

 microscopes being now in the hands of almost all lovers of natural 

 histoiy, and Infusoria being generally the first things which attract 

 the attention of the observer, that this work will meet with great 

 approbation, especially as it leaves nothing to be desired with re- 

 si)ect to price, the cost of each plate, containing upwards of fifty sub- 

 jects, not amounting to sixpence. The whole is accompanied by a 

 general history of Animalcules, with their localities, best mode of 

 capture, and method of examining them under the microscope, &c. 



Books received. 



The Naturalist's Library : — Ornithology, vol . xiii. The Nectarinidee, 

 or Sun Birds. By Sir W. Jardine. 



Thirty-six volumes of the Naturalist's Library are now published, 

 viz. : — 



Of Ornithology, 13 vols. 



Of Ichthyology, 3 vols. 



Of Entomology (complete), 7 vols. 



Of Mammalia (complete), 13 vols. 



There will be forty volumes in all. The remaining four will in- 

 clude British Fishes in 2 vols., and the concluding portions of British 

 Birds and the Fishes of Guiana. These are confidently expected by 

 Midsummer. 



History of British Birds. By William Yarrell, F.L.S., &c. Part 34. 

 Dec. 1842. 8vo. Van Voorst. 



This Part commences the Laridce, and completes the descriptions 



