194 Bibliography. 



riginal Race of America, by Samuel George Morton, M. D. : Descrip- 

 tions and figures of the Araneides of the United States, by Nicholas 

 Marcellus Hentz : Descriptions of the Fishes of Lake Erie, the Ohio 

 River, and their tributaries, by Jared P. Kirtland, M. D., continued from 

 p. 26. : Description of a species of Helix, newly observed in the United 

 States, by Amos Binney : Observations on the habits of the Python Na- 

 talensis, by Thomas S. Savage, M. D. : Observations on the characters 

 and habits of the Ocellated Turkey, (Meleagris Ocellata, Cuv.,) by 

 Samuel Cabot, M. D. : On the existence of (Siliceous?) Spiculse in the 

 exterior rays of Actinia, and memoranda concerning the Siliceous Ani- 

 malcules of Boston, by J. W. Bailey : Enumeration of the Fishes of 

 Brookhaven, Long Island, with remarks on the species observed, by Wm. 

 O. Ayres. 



The preponderance of zoological matter over the other branches of 

 natural history, strikes the eye at once in glancing over this table of con- 

 tents. This is of course in a great measure accidental, but it is neverthe- 

 less true, that the number of contributors in the zoological departments 

 have been greater generally in this Journal than in botany, paleontology, 

 and mineralogy. We observe in this number some typographical errors, 

 an unusual thing in the Boston press. 



12. The North American Sylva; or a description of the Forest Trees 

 of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, not described in the work 

 of F. Andreto Michaux, and containing all the Forest Trees discovered 

 in the Rocky Mountains, the Territory of Oregon, down to the shores of 

 the Pacific, and into the confines of California, as well as in various 

 parts of the United States. Illustrated by 122 fine Plates. By Thomas 

 Nuttalo, F. L. S., &c. &c. In 3 vols.— Vol. I, (first half.) Philadel- 

 phia, J. Dobson, 1842. pp. 55, royal 8vo. ; 19 plates. 



The first half volume of Mr. Nuttall's continuation of Michaux's Sylva 

 made its appearance about three months since. We are happy to say 

 that Mr. Nuttall's part of this justly esteemed work is issued in a me- 

 chanical style quite free from the faults of the reprint of the old portion, 

 of which it forms the continuation. This part is on fine paper, well 

 printed, and adorned with brilliantly colored plates. Mr. Nuttall's labors 

 have probably nearly doubled the number of trees described by Michaux. 

 This it seems is the farewell labor of Mr. Nuttall in the United States, as 

 at the close of a beautiful preface to the present volume, in which he 

 gives a very brief account of his wanderings, he says: "But the 'oft told 

 tale' approaches to its close, and I must now bid a long adieu to the 

 'new world,' its sylvan scenes, its mountains, wilds, and plains, and 

 henceforth, in the evening of my career, I return, almost an exile, to the 

 land of my nativity !"* 



* Mr. Nuttall left this country for England about one year since. 



