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plates will be scarcely covered ; and we would request our zoologi- 

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 not look at the work with sufficient interest. The parasites appear 

 to run generically, and in many instances specifically , and may be 

 taken as a mean to assist in distinguishing closely allied species from 

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ADDITION TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The zoological collection of the British Museum has lately received 

 some very interesting Mammalia from Siberia, viz. Antelope siaga, 

 Ant. subgutturosa, and some small quadrupeds described by Pallas, 

 which have not before been seen in Western Europe. Capt. George 

 Gray has presented to it^some very interesting specimens which he 

 collected during his travels in New Holland, and Mrs. Dunn has 

 sent a series of shell and radiated animals from New Zealand, which 

 she had received from Mr. Busby. These, with the shells which the 

 Museum received some time ago from the Rev. Mr. Yates, show 

 the great riches we are to expect from these islands when they are 

 properly explored. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL GALLERY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The eastern gallery of the British Museum, w T hich was formerly 

 occupied by the collections of minerals, having undergone a complete 

 repair, has been lately re-opened to the public, with the collections 

 of birds and shells. The passerines, gallinaceous, and wading birds 

 are as yet only arranged, but the remainder will be exhibited in the 

 course of the spring, when this room, which is 300 feet long and 50 

 wide, will contain one of the richest ornithological collections in Eu- 

 rope. The cases are all glazed with large panes of plate-glass, with 

 very narrow brass bars ; and the smaller birds are arranged on a new 

 plan, on box shelves, each bird having a back ground close behind it, 

 so as to show its outline distinctly and relieve its colours, and the 

 shells, which will occupy forty table cases, are exhibited on black 

 velvet, which gives them admirable relief. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR OCT. 1840. 

 Chiswic/c. — October 1. Overcast. 2,3. Very fine. 4. Rain. 5. Fine: rain. 

 6. Fine. 7. Frosty and foggy. 8. Very fine. 9. Hazy. 10. Dense fog : very 

 fine. 11. Hazy. 12 — 15. Foggy in the mornings: fine. 16. Overcast. 18. 

 Cloudy: rain. 19. Cloudy. 20. Clear. 21. Fine. 22. Hazy: rain. 23. 

 Overcast: rain. 24. Overcast. 25. Ve.y fine. 26. Overcast. 27. Heavy 

 rain: clear. 28. Fine. 29. Foggy: rain: dense fog at night. 30. Cloudy 

 and fine: clear. 31. Foggy : clear at night. 



Boston. — Oct. 1, 2. Cloudy. 3. Fine. 4. Cloudy. 5. Cloudy : rain early 

 a.m. 6, 7. Fine. 8. Fine: rime frost this morning. 9. Cloudy. 10, 11. Fine. 

 12 — 14. Foggy. 15. Fine. 16. Cloudy. 17. Rain: rain "early a.m. 18. 

 Cloudy: rain p.m. 19. Stormy. 20. Fine. 21. Cloudy. 22. Cloudy: raiii 

 early a.m. 23. Fine : rain p.m. 24. Fine. 25. Fine: rain early a.m. 26. Fine. 

 27. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 28. Foggy. 29. Cloudy: rain a.m. and p.m. 

 30, 31. Foggy. 



