Magazin de Zoologie. 465 



a variety." — Ctirdium edule. — Helix pomatia. — Unio — Charaa gi- 

 gas. — Some additional notes are given of the particular ornamental 

 uses, &c. to which shells are put in various countries. At Mobile the 

 roads are mended with them, (the species so used is not mentioned,) 

 and they are found to answer well. Upon the whole, we have in 

 this paper a useful outline of the economical uses of the Testacea. 



Art. VIII. p. 292, is a favourable review of Dr Lindley's Natu- 

 ral System of Botany, 2d edit. It is introduced as an original ar- 

 ticle. Description of several new Trilobites, by Jacob Green, 



M. D. p. 343. Description of the Skull of the Gnadaloupe Fos- 

 sil Human Skeleton, by James Moultrie, M. D. Professor of Phy- 

 siology in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. The 

 remains alluded to are said to be portions of the Guadaloupe skele- 

 ton in the British Museum, and were procured on the spot by Mon. 

 1'Herminiere, and placed in the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 of South Carolina. They consist of five fragments of the skull ; and 

 the investigation was made for the purpose of ascertaining, so far as 

 possible, whether these relics belonged, as had been supposed, to 

 an individual of the Carib race. Dr Moultrie considers that they 

 certainly do not, but bear all the marks of the American variety ; 

 " In so much, that if it were possible to exfoliate, if I may so say, 

 the fossil relics from their incrustation, the vacancies might be filled 

 with the corresponding parts taken from the head of the Peruvian." 



■ The Miscellanies contain the annual report of the Curators of 



the Boston Society of Natural History, which appears to be increas= 



ing rapidly. Notice of the Discovery of the remains of the Ele- 



phas primogenius in 1833 on the Irondiquot creek in the town of 

 Perintow, ten miles east of Rochester, N. Y., and at about the same 

 distance from Lake Ontario. 



Magazin de Zoologie, Journal destine a faciliter aux Zoologistes 

 de tous les pays, les Moyens de publier leur Travaux, etles especes 

 nouvelles ou peu connues qu'ils possedent. Par F. E. Guertn- 

 Meneville. 8vo. Paris. Septieme annee, Livs. 1, 2. (Continued 

 from p. 364.) 



Livraison 1, 7 me annee. 

 1. Recherches Anatomique et Zoologiques sur les Mammiferes 

 Marsupiaux, par M. Laurent, Professeur d'Anatomie. Part of 

 an interesting memoir, proposing to treat, te I. De l'appareil mam- 

 maire des Marsupiaux et de la bouche de leur petits. — 2. De l'os 

 Marsupial — 3. Du perinee des Marsupiaux — 4. De leurs parties 

 sexuelles ou genitales. — The first part is not completed.- -2. Me- 



