REVIEWS. 413 
The contents of No. IX. are—Reviews, twenty pages. The works 
noticed are Burmeister’s ‘ Investigations on the Classification of 
the Coleoptera;’ the Rev. C. Kingsley’s ‘ Glaucus, or the Wonders 
of the Shore ;’ ‘The Natural History of the Tineina,’ vol.i.; ‘The 
Entomologist’s Annual ;’ ‘Geology, its Facts and Fictions,’ by W. 
Elfe Taylor; Dr. Lindsay’s Papers on the Dyeing Properties of 
Lichens; Mr. Sowerby’s ‘ Fern Allies; and Baker’s ‘Classification 
of the Plants of Great Britain according to their Geognostic Re- 
lations.’ The original communications, or Proceedings of Socie- 
ties, are exclusively zoological, and they occupy twenty pages. 
The notices of serials occupy thirty-two pages. These serials are 
almost exclusively devoted to Zoology or to Geology or to Che- 
mistry. The only botanical works we have noticed are the ‘ Lin- 
nea’ and Hooker’s ‘Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Mis- 
cellany.’ This number concludes with thirty-two pages of the 
Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, and contains a 
paper, by John Kelly, Esq., on the Localities of Fossils of the 
Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland. 
No. X. contains twelve reviews, nine original communications, 
and sixteen pages filled with notices of serials, the conclusion of 
Mr. Kelly’s Paper on the Fossils of the Carboniferous Lime- 
stone, and an Addyess to the Geological Society of Dublin, or a 
panegyric on geology and geologists in general. 
We have now laid before our readers the contents of a work 
which deserves the patronage of all the disinterested disciples of 
Nature. The greater portion of the contents are, as may be seen 
by a glance at the work, beyond our sphere, and to our zoolo- 
gical, geological, and chemico-physical contemporaries we must 
leave them. But, independently of this, we can discern in the 
editors or writers of these very interesting articles a liberality 
and geniality of spirit which more or less characterizes every 
genuine lover of natural studies. We are particularly obliged 
to them for the following sentence, No. IX. p. 7 :—“ The pro- 
fessors (of natural science) are too apt to leave the popularizing of 
their studies to other and less competent hands.” This we have 
often regretted ; and we have sometimes ventured to remonstrate 
against the practice of scientific writings being composed rather 
for the scientific than for the million, who are not seldom de- 
terred from the reading and study of such books by the unneces- 
sary technicalities abundant in them. The strong forget the 
