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had been broken, it was deposited in the Whitby Museum. The entire 

 length of this animal was rather more than 18 ft. 



The second portion of the work concludes with an account of the cele- 

 brated Kirkdale Cave, and the author's reasons for differing from Dr. Buck- 

 land's interesting explanation of that geological phenomenon. We have no 

 room to discuss the theoretical part, which occupies the third portion ; and, 

 on the whole, the volume would probably have been of equal or greater 

 value without that appendage. — T, 



Art. III. Catalogue of Works on Natural History, lately published, 

 loitli some Notice of those considered the most interesting to British 

 Naturalists, 



Britain. 



Anon. : The British Naturalist ; or Sketches of the more interesting Pro-r 

 ductions of Britain and the surrounding Sea, in the scenes which they 

 inhabit ; and with relation to the general Economy of Nature, and the 

 Wisdom and Power of its Author. Vol. II. The Year — Spring, Summer. 

 London. 8vo. 1830. 



We record the publication of this agreeable and instructive volume, in- 

 tending to review it at length when we shall have more room. 



Thompson^ John T., Esq. F.L.S., Surgeon to the Forces, Author of a 

 Memoir on the Pentacrinus europae'us, &c. : Zoological Researches and 

 Illustrations ; or. Natural History of nondescript or imperfectly known 

 Animals. In a Series of Memoirs. Illustrated by numerous Figures. 

 Cork. 8vo. Nos. II. and III. 

 These numbers contain some very interesting discoveries, which will be 



noticed in our next. 



Loudon'' s, Hortus Britannicus, &c. ; enumerating nearly 30,000 Species in 

 the Linnean Arrangement, and nearly 4000 Genera under the Jussieuean 

 System. London. 8vo. 1/. 1^. 

 The merit of this work belonging more to others than to ourselves, we 



