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predecessors ; and he will likewise gain much instruction and enter- 

 tainment from the history of embalming among the ancient Egyptians 

 and Guanches, as well as in more modern times. 



15. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, by T, R. Jones, 

 F. L. S. London, 8vo. parts 1 to 10, pp. 480; to be continued ; price 

 2s. 6d. per No. — This work is confined to the physiological and struc- 

 tural peculiarities of the great groups, classes, and orders of the animal 

 kingdom; and, from being lucidly written and beautifully illustrated, it 

 cannot fail to become a manual of comparative anatomy and animal 

 physiology, extended through all the classes of the animal kingdom. 

 This, it is well known, has long been a desideratum in our literature; 

 and we are, accordingly, the better pleased to see it so well executed. 

 The inferior tribes of animals, whose structure and economy, and 

 even existence, are almost unknown to the majority of English 

 readers, are treated in a manner which will, we trust, gain for them 

 numerous observers in this country, affording as they do such singular 

 materials for investigation. — London Atliencdum. 



16. Boston Journal of Natural History, containing papers and com- 

 munications read before the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. iii, 

 No. 3. Boston, 1840 ; C. C. Little and J. Brown. 



Our readers have for two or three years past been familiar with all that 

 has been done by this active Society, as far as it has been published in 

 the reports of their weekly meetings. One of the papers contained in 

 this part of their Journal, appeared at length in our last number, viz. 

 that by Mr. F. Alger, on the minerals of N. Holland. The contents of 

 the present number are as follows : 



Art. VI. A further examination of some N. England Lichens ; by Ed- 

 ward Tuckerman, LL. B. 



Art. VII. Notice of Minerals from N, Holland; by F. Alger. 



Art. VIII. Descriptions of eleven new species of N. England Shells ; 

 by Prof. C. B. Adams. 



Art. IX. Description of Tellina tenta, Say, and of Helix serpuloides, 

 Montague, with remarks on other marine shells of Massachusetts ; by C, 

 B. Adams. 



Art. X. Description of the Fishes of Ohio river and its tributaries ; by 

 Jared P. Kirtland. 



Art. XI. A Monograph of the Helices inhabiting the United States ; 

 continued, by Amos Binney, M. D. 



Art, XII. Description of two new species of Anculotus ; by J. G. An- 

 thony. 



Art. XIII. Monograph of the species of Pupa found in the United 

 States, with figures ; by Augustus A. Gould, M. D, 



