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ditional traits of their habits and structural peculiarities, Mr. Macgil- 

 livray has observed much, and what he has observed he has told well. 

 There is, perhaps, a claim made to a greater degree of originality in 

 these than a critical survey would altogether allow in equity ; but 

 what is not new has been elaborated and kneaded together by one 

 whom personal experience had taught to know the genuineness of 

 the materials he was handling. Let any one examine the family and 

 generic characters of the book with care, and we think the justice of 

 our remark will be allowed : they are excellently well done. We 

 are, however, inclined to blame some unnecessary innovations in 

 nomenclature ; to differ from our talented authoi- in the application 

 of some few names ; to wish that the sources whence the characters 

 of the genera were taken had been more often and precisely quoted ; 

 and to smile good-naturedly (are we not fathers ?) on the paternal 

 storge which pullulates forth with rather a too frequent and rash 

 growth in the mention of all and every the leetle Macgillivrays — 

 God bless them — Miss and Marion, Isabella and Anne, " my son " 

 John, and not forgetting Paul- Howard and the rest of the family. 



We end as we began — by our hearty recommendation of the book 

 to our readers. To all who concern themselves in making a ' popu- 

 lation return' of the molluscan natives the work is indispensable ; and 

 for the value of six shillings they have here matter which some ped- 

 dling dilettanti might have been excused had he published as much 

 for a guinea sterling. 



Annales des Sciences Nature! les : — Zoologie, M. Milne Edwards. 



Botaniqiie, MM. Ad. Brongniart et Guillemin. Paris: Fortin, 



Masson and Co. 



Jan. 1843. — Zoology. — Some Observations on the OnguUiKe, by 

 M. Deshayes. M. Duvemoy, in his account of the animal of OnguUna, 

 proposed the removal of that genus from the neighbourhood of the 

 LucincB to that of the Mytilacece. M. Deshayes, in this paper, ap- ^< 



proves such a change, pointing out that M . Duvernoy's animal is a true (ir 



Lucina, and that the structure of its branchife, separated at their an- ■^•i 



terior margin and united elsewhere, is after all rather a specific than 

 a generic anatomical distinction. M. Deshayes' arguments are sound 

 throughout this paper. — On the Ravages of Scolytus pygmaus dsaox^^ 

 Ash and Oak Trees, and on the proposed Remedies, by M. Robert. 

 The author proposes two antidotes to the destruction caused by this 

 pestiferous insect: 1st, to varnish the bark of trees affected; and 

 2nd, to make longitudinal and oblique incisions at regular distances 

 in the bark. — M.|Poiseulle on the Flux of Liquids in the Living Capil- 

 laries. — On the habits, development and metamorphoses of Caridina 

 Desmarestii, with reflections on the metamorplioses of Decapodous 

 Crustacea generally, by M. Joly (commencement). 



Botany. — On the Temperature of Plants, by Professor Rameaux. 

 A summary of what has been done on this subject, with an account 

 of the author's own observations, and elaborate tables. — M. Decaisne 

 on Drymispermmn, Pseudais, and Gyrinopsis. — Count Jaubert and 

 Ed. Spach on the Argyrolobia of the Northern Hemisphere. — The 



