212 Miscellanies. 



dent foreigners and inhabitants of the provinces resident in Paris, 

 who, by comparison with a non-official return from the Bureau des 

 Longitudes, (14th December, 1818,) appear to have amounted to 

 149,000 persons. 



The population of the whole metropolis, (London,) at the com- 

 mencement of the last century, was 674,000; in 1831, it was up- 

 wards of 1,500,000, which gives an increase of 222 per cent. 

 The population of the whole of Great Britain, has been augmented, 

 in the same time, from 5,475,000 to 13,888,000, or 254 per cent., 

 so that the whole population has increased with still greater celerity 

 than that of the metropolis. — Phil. Mag. JVov. 1832. 



JVew works in England. 



A letter dated Feb. 28, 1833, just received from Gideon Mantell, 

 Esq., of Lewes, Sussex, England, mentions that the following works 

 are about to appear. 



1 . The third volume of Mr. Lyell's Principles of Geology, com- 

 pleting that work ; it is expected in April. 



2. A new edition of Mr. Bakewell's admirable Introduction to 

 Geology — in April. 



3. The Geology of the South East of England, with figures and 

 descriptions of the extraordinary newly discovered fossil reptiles of 

 Tilgate forest, (by Mr. Mantell,) 8vo. 



4. Dr. Fitton's Geology of Hastings, just published, price 45.: a 

 very excellent little epitome of the geology of that neighborhood. 



5. A memoir on the Plesiosauri and Ichthyosauri, discovered by 

 Thomas Hawkins, Esq., of Glastonbury ; 1 vol. 4to., with beautiful 

 plates. Mr. Hawkins has succeeded, by sparing neither money nor 

 trouble, in obtaining the finest remains of Plesiosauri and Ichthyosauri 

 in the world ; one specimen of the latter is twenty five feet long, and 

 perfect from snout to tail. 





