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productions. These results, we have reason to hope, will not 
long be withheld from us; and my knowledge of the progress 
alre eady made authorises me to add, that the accuracy and 
elaborate finish with which they are worked out will amply 
compensate for the present delay. From a few other quarters, 
some valuable additions to our knowledge of the Reptilia 
have appeared. I shall particularise Mr. Guthrie’s Observa- 
tions on the Structure of the Heart in 'Testudo indica, which 
he founded on the examination of a specimen in the collection 
of the Zoological Society ; and Mr. Holberton’s Notes taken 
during the Examination of a Specimen of Vestudo tabuldta, which 
had lately died in the menagerie of the same society. Both 
these anatomical treatises are replete with new and interesting 
information on a subject hitherto little understood. To Dr. 
Smith, also, whom I have already quoted as elucidating the 
Fauna of South Africa, we are indebted for the characters of 
two new forms of Ophidian reptiles, peculiar to that country, 
which he names Bucéphalus and A’nodon. Of the former 
group he describes four species, new to science; of the latter, 
one. 
A strong impulse has been latterly given to the study of 
Ichthyology, both in this country and on the Continent; and 
the spirit has extended itself even to our colonies. Dr. Ban- 
croft has taken advantage of the opportunities afforded him of 
examining the fishes of the West India seas, and has sent us some 
valuable observations on the subject, together with specimens 
of several of the species. His remarks have been published at 
large in the 16th and 17th numbers of the Zoological Journal, 
where the lovers of this department of nature will find ample 
gratification in his copious and accurate details. I have here 
again to refer to our African correspondent, Dr. Smith, as 
having contributed to this branch of science, by the descrip- 
tion of a new form among the family of Sharks, which he 
found on the south coast of Africa, and which he characterised 
under the name of Rhincodon. Our zealous friend, also, Gen. 
Hardwicke, has enriched our Zoological Journal by some va- 
luable remarks on the Goramy of China (Osphrémenus 6lfax 
Commerson), founded on his personal observation of the spe- 
cies, while he was some months resident in the Isle of France. 
His remarks are at this moment of peculiar interest, as this 
fish, which had been imported into that island from China, 
and more recently into some of the French West Indian 
Islands, and naturalised in both places with such success as 
to afford the inhabitants a copious supply of wholesome and 
palatable food, is one of the species which it is in contempla~ 
tion to introduce into this country, under the auspices of the 
