448 Literary Notices. 



than the description in Gaudin's Flora Helvetica ; it not 

 being so satisfactory as the generality of his others. — P. J. 

 Brown. Eichenbiihl, near Thun. 



Meteorological Error in Vol. VIII. — What have you been 

 about in Vol. VIII. p. 446. ? making the barometer, at 

 Berne, fall from 21*10 in. to 25*6 in. I thought none but 

 Irish barometers fell in that direction, the more modern 

 Bernese ones certainly do not. Again, the thermometer sud- 

 denly fell from 8f above zero to zero (difference 51 Fahr.) ; 

 the difference is merely 19f Fahr., from 8f- above zero of 

 Reaumur to zero of Fahr., would be 51 Fahr.; but of course 

 the fall refers to the same scale, i. e. to that of Reaumur. In 

 the note it is said that on the 2d of February, 1830, the ther- 

 mometer was 8| Fahr. below zero, at Berne ; this was the 

 cold at Thun during the night. It will be seen by the first 

 part of p. 247, that at eight o'clock in the morning of the 

 3d of February, when the cold at Thun was 4 below zero of 

 Fahr., it was still 22 F. below zero at Berne; and in some 

 parts of that neighbourhood, i. c. near Worb and Wyl it was 

 5 F. still lower. — P. J. Brown. 



Art. III. Literary Notices. 



Preparing for Publication, the Journal of the late ex- 

 ploring Expedition into Central Africa, with numerous en- 

 gravings illustrative of African scenery, dresses, costumes, 

 &c, of the natives. By Dr. Andrew Smith. Smith and 

 Elder, Cornhill. 



The Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst, LL.D., late Fellow 

 of All Souls College Oxford, has in the press, Notes on Nets 

 and other Matters, to be published by Van Voorst. 



In order to render the Zoological Journal as complete as 

 possible, Mr. G. B. Sowerby has printed a Table of Contents 

 for the First and Second Parts of the Supplementary Plates, 

 which may be had gratis, by the subscribers to the work 

 and possessors of the copies of the Supplementary Plates, 

 upon application at Mr. Sowerby 's, 50. Great Russell Street, 

 Bloomsbury. 



The editors of the Entomological Magazine have, in their 

 last number, contradicted the report of the non-continuation 

 of that periodical. 



