NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. SA 
Sea-side Book,’ of which it is impossible to speak too highly; and most pleasant it isto 
nius and learning thus gathering the bloom of his varied knowledge, to put it 
into a form equally suited to a child and to a savant. Seldom, perhaps, has there been a little 
so vast a quantity of facts has been compressed int Il a sp and yet 
80 fully, simply, without a taint of pedantry or cumbrousness,—an excellence which 
the sure and only mark of a perfect mastery of the subject. 
“Two little ‘Popular’ Histories, one of British Zoophytes, the other of British Sea-weeds, by 
. Landsborough, are very excellent; and are furnished, too, with well-drawn and colored 
plates, for the comfort of those to whom a scientific nomenclature (as liable as any other 
human thing to be faulty and obscure) conveys but a vague conception of the objects. These 
May serve well for the beginner, as introductions to Professor Harvey’s large work on the 
British Alow A te et iiè > i al iy ja Dettich 7, Shan W 









To these we may add ‘“Quatrefages’ Souveniers of a Naturalist,” a fas- 
cinating work by a first-class observer, on the animals of the coast of 
France and of the shores of the Mediterranean, republished in London. 

NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 

ZOOLOGY. 
LIVING IN THE SEa.—Insects are essentially earth-inhabiting. 
A small proportion of all the insects live in fresh water, and less than & 
undred are known to inhabit the sea. Only three species are known to 
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