424 Miscellanies. 



" It will describe the genera according to the Linnsean arrange- 

 ment, as well as the inhabiting Mollusca, with plates of the rarest of 

 every genus, accompanied by descriptions. 



" The habitats of the most rare species will be noticed, with some 

 proper directions to the student, for preserving and cleaning the 

 shells, as well in this country as in foreign climes. 



"The genera as arranged by Lamarck and Cuvier, will be enu- 

 merated, in order to assist the collector, to which a glossary will be 

 annexed, compiled with great care from the most valuable and the 

 rarest works on the Science in existence. 



" The work will be printed on fine paper, in a quarto form, illus- 

 trated by seventy two handsome lithographic drawings, and will be 

 delivered to subscribers in a neat binding, at ^4, plain plates, or ^8 

 plates colored. 



"The plates for this work are original, drawn expressly for the 

 purpose, and for accuracy of delineation will be found to be equal, 

 and in many respects superior, to those of any work ever published 

 on the Science of Conchology." 



6. Ornithology. — Will speedily be published. Ornithology of the 

 United States and Canada, by Thomas Nuttall, Vol. 2. Water Birds, 

 1. Vol. 12mo. 



7. Mw Work by Dr. S. G. Morton.— Mess. Key h Biddle of 

 Philadelphia, have just published " Illustrations of Pulmonary Con- 

 sumption, its anatomical characters, causes, symptons and treatment. 

 With twelve plates drawn and colored from nature. By Samuel 

 George Morton, M. D. Physician to the Philadelphia Alms House, 

 Hospital, &;c." 



This work illustrates, by accurate and beautiful colored plates, the 

 progress of tubercular consumption, from the incipient stage to open 

 abscess. The subject is further illustrated by the details of thirty four 

 cases, embracing nearly all the known symptoms, morbid characters 

 and complications of this disease. 



8. Zoology. — Charles Lucien Bonaparte has commenced at 

 Rome, a work entitled Iconographia Delia Fauna Italica. It will 

 be contained in 20 numbers in 4to, and will be illustrated by colored 

 lithographic drawings. The price is three Roman scudi per num- 

 ber, or, f 60 for the twenty numbers. — Nat. Gaz. 



