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predecessors ; and he will likewise gain much instruction and enter- 
tainment from the history of embalming among the ancient Egyptians 
and Guaniches, as well as in more modern times. 
j 15. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, by T. R. Jones, 
F. L. S.. London, 8vo. parts 1 to 10, pp. 480; to be continued ; price 
2s. 6d. per No.—This work is confined to the physiological and struc- 
tural peculiarities of the great groups, classes, and orders of the animal 
kingdom; and, from being lucidly written and beautifully illustrated, it 
cannot fail to become a manual of comparative anatomy and animal 
' physiology, extended through all the classes of the animal kingdom. 
This, it is well known, has long been a desideratum in our literature; 
and we are, accordingly, the better pleased to see it so well executed, 
‘he inferior tribes of animals, whose structure and economy; and” 
» even existence, are almost unknown to the majority of English 
na readers, are treated in a manner which will, we trust, gain for them 
. . numerous observers in this country, affording as they do such singular 
. materials for investigation.— London Atheneum. 
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Our readers have for two or three years past been familiar with all that 
has been done by this active Society, as far as it has been published i 
the reports of their weekly meetings. One of the papers contained in 
this part of their Journal, appeared at length in our. last number, ¥!2- 
that by Mr. F. Alger, on the minerals of N. Holland The contents of 
the present number are as follows: toe 
Art. VI. A farther examination of some N. England Lichens; by Ed- 
ward Tuckerman, LL. B. : 
Art. VII. Notice of Minerals from N. Holland; by F. Alger. ; 
Art. VIII. Descriptions of eleven new species of N. England Shells; 
by Prof. C. B. Adams. : 
Art. IX. Description of Tellina tenta, Say, and of Helix serpuloides, 
Montague, with remarks on other marine shells of Massachusetts ; by & 
B. Adams. ‘ 
Art. X. Description of the Fishes of Ohio river and its tributaries ; by 
Jared P. Kirtland. 
rt. XI. A Monograph of the Helices inhabiting the United States; 
continued, by Amos Binney, 
Art, XII. Description of two new species of Anculotus; by J- G. Arr 
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States, with figures; by Augustus A. Gould, M. D. 
