86 Magazine of Natural History. 



from our poets would have been ornamental, and not incompatible 

 with scientific accuracy or pretension. Our poets — old and living — 

 have sung of Ferns many a time and oft ; they were plants of power 

 in the superstitions of our forefathers, who also drew from them more 

 copiously than we now do for a supply of some little wants, as in- 

 deed, the author has told us, but we should have been pleased to 

 have seen some quaint quotations interwoven with the text in illus- 

 tration of them. Perhaps too the author v/ould have done well to 

 have given a short separate chapter indicating the distribution of 

 our Ferns in relation to their latitudes, peculiar soils and sites ; and 

 we could have wished that, in giving the hahilatu, the classification 

 of them into English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Insular had been 

 more systematically attended to than it has been. 



Periodicals — British. 



Loudon s Magazine of Natural History. New Series. March and 

 April 1837. 

 I. Zoology. 

 Blyth on the Psychological Distinctions between Man and all 



other Animals, p. 131. Strickland on the Inexpediency of 



altering established Terms in Natural History, p. 127 West- 

 wood on Generic Nomenclature, p. 169. Strickland's Rules 



for Zoological Nomenclature, p. 173 Dr Moore on the Birds 



of Devonshire, p. 113 and 176. Hoy's Notice of two species of 



Tringa new to the British Islands, with a list of the rarer Birds 

 killed in Suffolk, and the adjoining bor(iers of Norfolk and Essex, 



from the autumn of 1835 to December 1836, p. 115 W. L. on 



the breeding of Woodcocks in Selkirkshire, with observations on the 

 Habits of the Black and Red Grouse, and Carrion Crow in Scot- 

 land, p. 118 Blyth on the Habits and Peculiarities of the 



common Bottletit or Mufflin (Parus caudatus of Linnaeus,) p. 199. 



— — G. W. on the supposed different species of Viper, p. 183. 



Observations upon the Salmon in Loch Shin in Sutherland, by James 



Loch, M. P. p. 208 Gray's Description of some singularly 



formed Orthopterous Insects, p. 141. Stutchbury on Cyprae- 



cassis, a new genus of univalve shells, p. 214. Cassis rufaof Brug- 



uiere is the type of this well-defined genus On Nematura of 



Benson, a new genus of univalve shells, by G. B. Sowerbv, p. 217. 



Charlesworth on a new Fossil Shell from the Coast of Suf- 



. folk, p. 218. Richardson's Observations upon the Chronologi- 



