Notices of New Books. 7305 



the fish was the cause of death. It is to be remarked that the 

 poisonous matter was not found in the stomachs of the sufferers ; and 

 that the cook, who also ate, escaped harmless. Would it not also be 

 well to identify the fish more positively, and to distribute correct 

 figures thereof as a warning to others ? 



* The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist: Vol. v. No. 3, dated 

 June, 1860; 80 pp. letter-press. No. 4, dated August, 1860; 

 88 pp. letter-press. Both numbers illustrated with Woodcuts. 

 London : Sampson Low, Son & Co. Price 3s. each. 



No. 3 contains the following papers : — 



Art. XIII. New Species of Fossils from the Lower Silurian Rocks 

 of Canada. By E. Billings. 



Art. XIV. Notices of the Life of the late Professor George Wilson, 

 of Edinburgh. 



Art. XV. Notice of Tertiary Fossils from Labrador, Maine, &c. ; 

 and Remarks on the Chmate of Canada in the Newer Pliocene or 

 Pleistocene Period. By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., F.G.S. 



Art. XVI. Abridged Sketch of the Life of Mr. David Douglas. 



Reviews and Notices of — 1. The Life, Travels and Books of 

 Alexander von Humboldt, with an Introduction by Bayard Taylor. 



2. A First Lesson in Natural History, by Actsea (Mrs. Agassiz). 



3. A Manual of Scientific and Practical Agriculture for the School 

 and Farm, by J. L. Campbell, A.M. 4. The British Tortrices, by 

 S. J. Wilkinson [extracted from the 'Athenaeum']. 5. The Rudi- 

 ments of Botany, Structural and Physiological, by Christopher Dresser 

 [extracted from the ' Athenaeum']. 6. Professor Hall's Report of the 

 Geology of Iowa. Correspondence. Report of the Meeting of the 

 British Association at Aberdeen [extracted from the ' Athenaeum']. 

 Miscellaneous. 



No. 4 contains the following papers : — 



Art. XXXVII. [the previous article is numbered XVI.] A Syste- 

 matic List of Lepidoptera collected in the Vicinity of Montreal. By 

 W. S. M. D'Urban. 



Art. XXXVIII. Abridged Sketch of the Life of Mr. David Douglas. 



Art. XXXIX. On the Track of an Animal lately found in the Pots- 

 dam Formation. By Sir W. E. Logan, F.R.S. 



Art. XL. Notes on the Coal-fields of Pictou. By H. Poole, Esq. 

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