Loudon^ s Muf/aziiie of Natural History. 359 



Similar tables would be very desirable were they appended to the 

 more extended Floras which we have of various disti-icts both in 

 England and Scotland^ and also, according to Mr C. Watson's plan, 

 to note the ranges of elevation between which the plants are seen 

 to occur. — The greatest height within the limits of Mr Cooper's 

 Flora is Leith-Hill, 993 feet. The lowest is Kensington Palace, QQ 

 feet, 1 inch. 



Periodicals — British. 



Loudon's Magazine of Natural History. New Series. July and 



August 1837- (Continued from page 276.) 



I. Zoology. 



On Nomenclature by Zetetes, p. 421 Eyton upon the Theory 



of Hybridity, p. 357- Templeton's List of the Irish Vertebrate 



animals, p. 403. Dr Moore on the Web-footed Birds of Devon- 

 shire, p. 360. Observations on Woodcocks and Fieldfares breed- 

 ing in Scotland, by George Fairholme, p. 337, with remarks 

 on the same subject, by Mr E. Blyth, p. 439. On the struc- 

 ture of the Fossil Saurians, from the German of Hersiann von 



Meger, p. 341. Report of a Notice, by M. Rang, respecting the 



Inhabitant of the Argonaut, by MM. Dumeril and De Blain- 



viiiLE, p. 393. Some observations on Mr Stutchbury's proposed 



new genus of univalve shells Cypraecassis, by G. B. Sowerby, 

 p. 366 and p. 431. Could not Mr Stutchbury's views of a genus 

 in Malacology be controverted without the infusion of acrimony 

 which embitters this paper ? In his " additional remarks," Mr 

 Sowerby declares that he is not actuated by any personal feeling 

 against his opponent, — so that he seems to have had no reason 

 whatever for having stated his objections in the first instance in an 

 irritating and insulting manner, for assuredly there is no expression 

 in the original paper of Mr Stutchbury, which could provoke such 

 a bilious discharge. We do indeed very heartily wish that our me- 

 tropolitan brethren would cultivate a greater " sweetness of speech," 

 for their animosities and mutual recriminations afford no sport to 



us, and do not tend to edifying. On the Mactrades, by J. E. 



Gray. p. 370. Among the short communications we find. No- 

 tice of the South African Museum : Additions to the Zoological So- 

 ciety : the Fossil remains of Apes : on the Habits of the Viper : on 

 the swimming of snakes : on the alleged aflinity between the 

 Pigeons and Poultry : Eagle's nest in Loch Skene : Ventriloquism in 

 Birds. 



