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one. This will be borne out by the papers he has published in the 



the Transactions of the Zoological Society, — a work, of which he 

 took the principal superintendence, and which for general execution, 

 stands unrivalled. He is also known as the author of the Tower 

 Menagerie, and the Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Soci- 

 ety. His name will stand recorded by the Antelope Bennetii, Ortho- 

 tomus Bennetii, &ic. &;c. — Mag. of Zool. and Bot., Edinb. 



The painful news of the death of Dr, William Henry, the well 

 known author of a celebrated work on Chemistry, and of many ex- 

 cellent memoirs, has been fully confirmed. In the expectation of a 

 memoir prepared at the request of the Manchester Literary and Phi- 

 losophical Society, by Dr. Wni. Charles Henry, son of the deceased, 

 we postpone an obituary notice of this lamented philosopher, and 

 excellent man, until ampler means of doing justice to his memory are 

 placed in our hands. 



East Indian Geology. 



At the last moment, we have received from the author. Assistant 

 Surgeon John McClelland, an original octavo volume, of 384 pages, 

 with full illustrations, and printed in handsome style at Calcutta, 

 Bengal, on the Geology, and other topics of Natural History of the 

 Province of Kemaon, a portion of the region of the Himalayah 

 Mountains. We hail this work with pleasure from this remote re- 

 gion, and shall notice it again on a future occasion. 



