150 Bibliography. 
At the request of the Patent Office at ae and of Professor 
Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Beck commenced in 1848, a 
most laborious series of “ Researches on the Bread Stuffs of the United — 
States.” The Report was subsequently published at Washington. 
VII. BretiocrapuHy. 
1. A History uA - Fishes of Massachusetts ; by Davin Humpureys 
Storer, M.D.,A.A.S. 90 pp., 4to, with 16 4to lithographic plates.— 
From the Tokbobbtedl of the American Academy of Arts and Set- 
ences, vol. v.—Dr. Storer, as one of the Commissioners on the Zoology 
of aabiclienien in the year 1839, prepared a Report on the Ichthy- 
Memoir, the first part of which is here published, will present a revision 
of the whole subject, with excellent figures of the species, and a large 
amount of eaditionsl matter. The paper before us includes the follow- 
ing species 
T ys —Perea flavescens, Cuv., Labrax lineatus, Cuv., L. ru- 
fus, a Centropristes varius, Storer, Pomotis vulgaris, Cuv., P. ap- 
pendix, ay. 
If. Triglides —Prionotus lineatus, Dekay, P. palmipes, Storer, P. pila- 
tus, St., De ctylopterus volitans, Cus. -, Cottus gracilis, Heckel, Acan- 
thocottus variabilis, Girard, A. virginianus, G. Boleosoma Olmstedi, 
Agassiz, Aspidophorus monoptergyius, Cuv., Cryptacanthodes ( Storer) 
maculatus, Hemitripterus acadianus, St., Sebiistes norvegicus, Dey 
Gasterosteus biaculeatus, Mitchill, G. quadracus, Mitchill, G G. Dekayi; 
gassiz 
IV. Roce. cikias ovis, ( uv., Pagrus argyrops, Cuv 
V. Scombrida.—Scomber Dekayi, S¢., Sc. vernalis, Mitchill, Pe- 
lamys sarda, Cuv., Thynnus secundo- dorablia, St., Cybium pac ne 
tum, Cuv., Trichiurus lepturus, Lin., Xiphias gladius, Lin., Palinurus 
(Dekay) perciformis, Dek., Caranx chrysos, Cuv., Argyreiosus oe 
laris, Dek., A. unimaculatiis: Batchelder, Seriola zonata, Cuv., 
nodon saltator, Cuv., Rhombus triacanthua, Dek., Sphyrana aes 
lis, Dek. 
VI. Atherinide.—Atherina notata, Mitchill, 
VIL. Mugilide.—Mugil lineatus, Mitchill. 
e descriptions of the species are clear and precise, and abound in 
details, the results of the author’s careful investigations ; they are ac- 
companied with full lists of synonyms. Th plates are remarkably 
fine, though without anatomical details. W hie com _— t ork 
country to which it wilijes: s and as the same species in many instances ~ 
have a wide range and have relations to those of other regions, it will 
find gem rs throughout the land and among all interested in America® 
zoolog 
2. Dinwig? s Principles of yi a Physiological Chemistry ; 
translated by Dantet Breen, M.D., e U.S. Patent Office. —The 
systematic character of this work xP it — purpose 
for Sead it was intended, viz., as an introduc tothe ere "Or 
