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especially commendable. We have only one fault to 

 find with the present undertaking — the inconveni- 

 ently large size. — It is just twice the size of Leigh 

 Hunt's London Journal ! and this on purpose that 

 many species might be crammed into one plate — a 

 defect of itself. A work of this kind should not 

 exceed in size Partington's Natural History, or 

 Audubon's Ornithological Biograph y^at the outside ; 

 even the Penny Magazine would be too large. The 

 plates are numbered on the plan we suggested in our 

 review of the British Oology, and which was even 

 more necessary there than here. 



The British Cyclopedia of Natural History, combining a Scientific 

 classification of Animals, Plants, and Minerals, with a popular view 

 of their habits, economy, and structure. Edited by Charles F. 

 Partington. Monthly Numbers, Is. each. 



The Editor has been the means of collecting a vast 

 mass of interesting matter which he, like the queen 

 bee in a hive, has caused to be stored up for the use 

 of the community. One of the principal writers is 

 Mudie, who has contributed articles on almost every 

 branch of Natural History. We are sorry that this 

 eminent writer should continue to disfigure his 

 writings by such frequent displays of ignorance on 

 the science of the mind, one of which in the article 

 Elephant (which we presume to be by Mudie,) 

 surpasses any thing we have ever seen : — " In a state 

 of nature the female Elephant appears to have very 



