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Magazine of Natural History, Conducted by J. C. Loudon, Esq. 

 Monthly Numbers, 2s. each. Vols. I. to VIII. 



This work was corrmienced in May, 1828 ; and was 

 continued to September, 1834, in two monthly 

 numbers, when at the earnest request of many 

 correspondents it was altered to the monthly form. 

 It has completed its 8th volume, and contains a rich 

 fund of information and anecdotes, as well as several 

 beautiful articles, by Waterton, Dovaston, &c, and 

 also others in a more matter of fact style, as those 

 by Bree, Johnston, &c. We think, however, that 

 the publication has retrograded within these two or 

 three years, and that scientific communications are 

 too systematically excluded. The range which it 

 takes in is also too extended for so small a publica- 

 tion, which excludes articles sometimes for upwards 

 of a year. 



The Field Naturalises Magazine ; Edited by James Rennie. 1G 

 Nos. 8vo. Orr and Smith. 1833. 



This publication was commenced in January, 1833, 

 and was continued in monthly numbers till April, 

 1834, when it was suddenly dropped before it had 

 arrived at the middle of the second volume, without 

 a word of explanation. To drop a work in the 

 middle of a volume is not very handsome, and 

 Rennie will find this and other shabby practices 

 of certain editors ably exposed in Loudon's Magazine 

 of Natural History. 



