108 Miscellaneous. 



on the Grange estate ; the Coates estate near Bell's Mills and in the vicinity of 

 the Botanic garden. But in the selection, let every care be taken to choose a 

 dry, airy, but sheltered spot; one low and damp, such as the Meadows, would 

 soon be fatal to all the more tender animals, as has been already experienced in 

 other institutions where a southern climate gave greater advantages. 



Histoire Naturelle des ties Canaries — Five numbers of this work by P. Bar- 

 ker Webb, Esq. and M. Sabin Bertholet, had appeared in April last. It will be 

 composed of 50 numbers, containing a portion of 4to letter-press, and five or 

 six folio plates, and when completed will bind in three volumes. The first will 

 be devoted to the History of the islands ; the second to the Zoology ; the third 

 to the Botany. The plates, accordingto the subject, are engraved on copper or stone. 



Monograph of the Genus Oliva M. Duclos has ready for publication a mo- 

 nograph of the genus Oliva. The materials have been collecting for twenty-five 

 years, and the series of shells to trace the variations of form, and marking, and 

 colour is extremely rich. He reduces Lamarck's 67 species to 44, but adds to 

 these 94, describing in all 138 species ; what he considers varieties are very ex- 

 tensive, so many as 40 being sometimes ranged under one species. The plates, 

 35 in number, are folio, beautifully executed, and the four last are devoted ex- 

 clusively to anatomical details, and to the inhabitants of the shells, drawn from 

 life. — Rapport de M. Dumeril a VAcad. de Scien- Jan. 1836. 



Voyage dans L'Amerique Meridionale _D' Orbigny Eleven numbers of this 



beautiful and important work have reached us ; but the different portions of it 

 appear in a manner so miscellaneous, that it is scarcely possible to give any good 

 notion of it in its present state. Only two plates of the Mammalia, and one de- 

 voted to botany have appeared, the Mollusca occupying the greater portion of the 

 Zoological numbers. Of the descriptive part, written in the form of a. journal, 

 312 pages are published, occupying the two first years of the travels, chiefly in 

 Paraguay, and are interesting, though perhaps the composition is not in the most 

 elegant style. 



Temminck,Monographies et Recueil de planches coloriees — The second volume 

 of the " Monographies de Mammalogie" is now in the press, and will appear ere 

 long ; it is now above eight years since the first volume was completed. The 

 " Recueil de planches coloriees" has now reached its 93d livraison, and it is 

 proposed to complete the first series with the 100th liv., being in all 595 plates, 

 with 755 figures. An arranged catalogue of the pi. Enluminees, and the pi. 

 Coloriees will accompany the last liv., of which a part has already appeared; 

 and on the completion of that series, M. Temminck proposes, if he meets with 



sufficient encouragement, to commence a second series as a continuation Int. 



to Manuel d'Ornitol. Trois. part. 



New general History of Birds — Mr Gould is preparing a general history of 

 birds, to be published in numbers. The size, royal and imperial 4to, to range 

 with Temminck's Planches coloriees, Wilson's N. A. Ornithology, &c. A 

 figure of a typical form in each genus will be given, and, as far as possible, species 

 which have not been previously represented will be selected. The plates we 



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