ituralists, and the cooperation of all is invited in endeavoring to ren- 
er these lists as corffplete as possible. ' 
; ot by 
(2.) Iconographie des Coquilles Tertiaires, 4to, 1845.—This memoir 
devoted to the descriptions and figures. of those tertiary fossils which 
re reported to be identical with living species, or with those in different 
rata of this epoch. 
‘This memoir contains fourteen plates and twenty-eight species be: 
nging to the four genera Cytherea, Cyprina, Venus,and Lucina. 
(3.) Notice sur la Suecessions des Poissons Fossiles; folio.—This 
an extract from the last livraison of the Poissons Fossiles, giving an 
ccount of the position of fossil fish in the series of geological formas 
ons. Also an essay on the classification of fishes. 
(4.) Tableau Général des Poissons Fossiles rangés par terraines, 
ar L. Acasstz.—This thin quarto (only 16 pp.) is a most important 
€m to all students in this department, being a well arranged catalogue 
1 all species of fossil fish known in 1844. 
| (5.) Monographie des Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge. 
(Old red sandstone) des iles Britanniques et de Russie, par L. AGassiz. 
“Aree parts of text in 4to, and three folio atlases of plates.—This 
Work was undertaken at the request of the British Association at the 
"Manchester meeting in 1842. Those who have followed Hugh Millar 
In his delightful wanderings “in an old field,” will here recognize the 
totesque forms and uncouth portraits of those progenitors of the, finny 
_tbes which characterize the ‘‘ Devonian System.” The work sur- 
Passes even the Poissons Fossiles in the splendor of its illustrations. 
x 
is 
ee (6.) Etude Critique sur les Mollusques Fossiles, par Li. Acassiz, 
and 4 livraisons,—The former parts of this monograph we have: al- 
feady noticed. These two livraisons complete the genus Mya in 95 
~) Plates 4to, and accompanied by full descriptions. 
7%) Nomenclator Zoologicus, continens nomina systematica generum 
| animalium tam. viventium quam fossilium; auctor L., Acassiz.—We 
have already noticed* somewhat at length, in connection with the re- 
_ Port of the British Association on the subject of nomenclature, this im- 
Portant labor of the Swiss naturalist. os alee. 
The fasciculi vii. and viii. contain chiefly the Pisces and Hymenop- 
fra, With additions to several of the previous families. The work will 
be complete in 12 fasciculi, and published without delay. It will when 
_ Complete contain 31,000 names without the synonyms, each order be- 
ng distinctly and separately paged and alphabetized. There will also 
full index to the whole work. 
Kunze’s Supplement to Schkuhr’s Carices ; part iv, contains fig- 
' full descriptions of the following species, viz :—C. gynocrates, 
Uae This Journal, Ist Series, xlv, 1- 
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