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' The Natural History, Anatomy, and Development of Meloe, (con- 

 tinued); By George Newport, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 



It is impossible to give anything like an abstract of these important 

 papers in the limited space to which we are confined. Should how- 

 ever an opportunity occur hereafter, we purpose extracting entire Mr. 

 Newport's record of the discovery of Heteropus ventricosus, an Acari- 

 deous parasite on Monodontomerus, itself a parasite on the well known 

 bee, Anthophora retusa. 



* Shells and their Inhabitants. The Genera of Recent Mollusca 

 arranged according to their Organization.'' By Henry and 

 Arthur Adams. Part VI. Demy Svo., with the plates plain, 

 price 2s. 6d. ; Royal Svo., with the Animals coloured, price 5.?. 

 London : Van Voorst. October, 1853. 



This part contains 42 pages of text and 4 plates : the genera de- 

 scribed are enumerated below ; they all belong to the Gasteropoda. 

 Zidona, Adams; Callipara, Gray; Cymbiola, Swainson ; Scaphella, 

 Swainson ; Voluta, Linneus ; Harpula, Swainson ; Fulguracia, 

 Schumacher-, Lyria, Gray; Volutilithes, Swainson ; Mitra, Lamarck ; 

 Volutomitra, Gray ; Strigatella, Swainson; Turricula, Klein; Cylin- 

 dra, Schumacher ; Imbricaria, Schumacher ; Columbella, Lamarck ; 

 Pyrene, Bolten ; Amycla, Adams ; Engina, Gray ; Erato, Risso ; 

 Marginella, Lamarck ; Perricula, Schumacher. 



1 The Powers of the Creator displayed in the Creation ; or Observa- 

 tions on Life amidst the various Forms of the humbler Tribes 

 of Animated Nature ; with Practical Comments and Illustra- 

 tions. By Sir John Graham Dalyell, Knight and Bart. In 

 two volumes. Vol. II., containing 3*27 pages of text and 46 

 plates. London : John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row. 1853. 

 Price £i 4s. 



The first volume of this work is well known : before the publica- 

 tion of the second, the amiable and accomplished author had paid the 

 debt of Nature. The Preface, by that eminent naturalist and philo- 

 sopher, Dr. Fleming, so fully explains the circumstances of the case, 

 and is in itself so interesting, that we give it entire. 



