280 Bell's History of British Quadrupeds. 



pressi, cestiformes, excepto pari secundo maxilla? superioris, qui cuneiformes 

 ceterisque longiores ; characteres reliqui a Balistibus non different — Species 

 Xen. niger, Riipp. 



In conclusion of this short analysis, we may observe, that the 

 plates are lithographic, and are accurately drawn and well coloured. 



Bibliographical Notices. 

 A History of British Quadrupeds. By Thomas Bell, F. R. S-, &c. 



Illustrated by a wood-cut of each Species, and numerous Vig- 

 nettes. Nos. i. ii. London, Von Voorst. 8vo. 1836. 

 This work is commenced upon the same plan, and in the same 

 beautiful style of typography and wood-cutting with Mr Yarrell's 

 British Fishes* to which we expect it will prove a worthy companion. 

 The whole of the first number and the greater portion of the second, 

 are devoted to the Cheiroptera ; and although the size of the wood- 

 cuts is rather against the marking of the distinctive characters of 

 this difficult family, this is at once remedied by vignettes devoted to 

 these parts, being of the natural size, which renders the explanation 

 distinct, and the characters easily seized upon. These are taken by 

 Mr Bell principally from the proportions of the ear and tragus, and 

 from the relative proportions of the ear to the head and tragus, to- 

 gether with the formula of dentition. The notch-eared bat, Vesp. 

 emarginatus, Geoff, is given as British, on the authority of the meagre 

 description of its discoverer, who says that it was received, " at some 

 distance from Dover." This increases the British list of Vesperliliones 

 to twelve, eleven being described in Jenyns's Manual, and the V. 

 emarginatus of that author being in the present work considered iden- 

 tical with the V. Daubentonii, Leis. The work will be completed in 

 eight numbers, at 2s. 6d. each, the first of which appeared on the 

 1st July, and we promise an analysis upon its completion. 



Rumphia. — Sive commentationes botanical imprimis de plantis India; 



orientalis, turn penitus incognitis, turn quce in libris Rheedii, Rum- 



phii, Roxburghii, Waltichii, aliorumquc recensenlur, auctore C. 



L. Blume. 



Commenced under the care of Professor Blume, as a supplement 

 to the " Flora Javae" of that botanist, of the same size, and si- 



* We may announce the completion of Mr Yarrell's work, which it will soon 

 be our duty to notice more minutely. The two last numbers were received too 

 late to prepare an analysis for our present number. * 



