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shed Dr. Haney to the chair * 
3 an appo ointm ment, however, which w 
i ah the care of the herbarium of Trinity Cole 
ne has so successfully created, nor interrupt the regular 
Eahly publication of the admirable Phicologi a Britannica, of which 
me ago received the 25th number, (for January, — a 
150. 
taining apa 45 to 
ustrations conchyliologiques, ou description et figures " a 
les Coquiiles connues , etc.; par r M. HENU, M.D.—This is a magnifi- 
cent illustrated work in large folio, the size of the plates and text being 
fourteen by twenty inches, the latter * in double columns, and 
spewing a complete history of each gen The plates admit of a 
er of figures, so that varieties of allied species can be readily 
ities the large species can be fi —_ ay full size, as in 
assis and Strombus gigas; the latter is figured from an 
ye and perfect individual, and in sddiaog: two figures of 
iven, 
well engraved on copper and colored in the best 
manner, except tos of the fossil species, which are executed ina 
good style of lithography, like d’Orbigny’s palzontological works. 
mong the more beautiful of the plates, attention may be called to those 
_ of Spondylus and Pecten, which are figured from very perfect speci- 
‘mens, An example of the mollusc is usually figured, and in some 
atomical details are given. Various authors, includ- 
mens Petit, Récluz, Viccionaee, &c., have contribu- 
a) rs 
‘seed Spir ort As illum, Dentalium, Cor 
penve fener tes by . Valenciennes, e xtends to twelve 
text; Sigaretus, by M. Récluz has four plates 
yes ran i ; bo twealy species of Aspergillum are 
“ 
; n ew. 
“sm S daitias fic been copied pretty presi includ- 
Mr. Lea’s species of Unio, from the Am. Phil. Trans., 
e execution is not quite 
pies Mr. Lea’s figure of 
plicata, Conrad, mithoag® b 
r is made to include from fig. 3 
ay, has seventeen figures, and Le “dilatata, Con., h 
illustratin swell sig species, contain 
G r. Lea’s tuberculata - ols pe 
nates, Vol. V, No. 15.—May, 1848. 
