Notices of New Books. 4589 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



1 The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M.S. Herald, under the command 

 of Captain Heury Kellett, R.N., C.B., during the years 

 1845 — 51.' Published under the authority of the Lords Com- 

 missioners of the Admiralty. Reptiles and Fish. By Sir John 

 Richardson, Knt., C.B., M.D., F.R.S. Part III. Royal 4to, 

 32 pp. letter-press, 7 Plates. Price 10s. 6d. 



We have already expressed our inability to understand the plan of 

 this beautiful and expensive work ; we therefore address ourselves only 

 to the contents of the portion before us, of which we give a synopsis, 

 without pretending to have made any discovery as to the scope, design 

 or arrangement. 



Osteology (continued). — Mastodon ? p. 141 ; Elephas primigenius, 

 p. 142. 



Reptiles. — Lophosaura Goodridgii, Gray, p. 143, Tab. XXVI.; 

 Craniosaura Seemanni, Gray, p. 148, Tab. XXV. ; Gecko Reevesii, 

 Gray, p. 151, Tab. XXVII. 



At p. 155 we learn that other species of reptiles and batrachians 

 were collected on the voyage ; a list of fourteen is given, among which 

 occur "Rana, nova species from Canton;" "Gecko, near Naultina, 

 from the Island of Gorgona, Coast of Peru;" " Rana, nova species 

 from Mazatplan ;" " Grammatophora and Emys scabra, from same 

 locality, not marked. Likewise upwards of fifty species of snakes : — 

 Crotalus, Dendrophis, Boa, Pelamis, &c, from various places, but 

 chiefly from Western Mexico," p. 156. 



Here are the indications of important and valuable additions to our 

 Reptile Fauna, and we look forward with high anticipations to the 

 publication of these novelties in that elaborately minute and wonder- 

 fully accurate style for which Sir John Richardson is so deservedly 

 celebrated: we have no notice as to the date of publishing these 

 details, but the author proceeds, on the same page on which the 

 exciting announcement is made, to 



Fish. — Anchisomus geometricus, p. 156, Tab. XXX. ; Anchisomus 



angusticeps, p. 159; Anchisomus multistriatus, p. 160, Tab. XXIV.; 



Anchisomus reticularis, p. 161, Tab. XXXI.; Platessa stellata, p. 164, 



Tab. XXXII.; Platessa glacialis, p. 166, Tab. XXXII.; Salmo 



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