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Notices of Booh. [^-o. 3^ kew series, 
Christianity in China, Tariary and Thibet ; by M. TAbbe Hue, 
2 vols. (Longman and Co.) has just made its appearance and gives 
a History of the propagation of Christianity in those parts. " If it 
should not" says the Aihenceum^ 25, 1857) "be accepted 
as philosophically impartial, it will at least enjoy the credit of being 
thoroughly interesting." r 
Les Anglais et V Inde ; by M. le Mor. Fridolin, which has appear- 
ed in the las't few numbers of the Bevit^''. des Deux 3Jondes is con- 
cluded at page 298 of the Revue for the 15th March last, vol. VHI. 
Mon. Fridolin has divided his subject into five parts and treated 
them in the following order. 
1 . Les Fonctionn aires civils de 1' Honorable Compagnie des Indes. 
(Vol. VLp. 301.) 
2. L'Education des Hindous, les prisons et les Moyens de 
repression contre les Khonds, les Thugs et les Datturias.(Vol. VH. 
p. 768.) 
3. Le Commerce, les Finances et les Travaux publics sous le 
GoTernmentde THonorable Compagnie. (Vol. VH. p. 357,) 
4. L' Armee Anglo -Hindoue, Mseurs et Scenes Militaires dans 
rinde. (Vol. VH. p. 721.) 
5. Les Grandes villas de I'lnde, deux mois sur le Great Trunk- 
Road. (Vol. VIIL p. 241. 
The death of Dr. Robert Ball, Secretary of the Royal Zoologi- 
cal Society of Ireland is thus reported by the Athenaum of the 18th 
of April, p. 505. 
** From Dublin we hear of the sudden death of Dr. Robert BaU,— an esteemed 
Naturalist, Trliose name was recently brongbt under the reader's notice in connex- 
ion witli ihe arrangements for the next meeting af the British Association. Dr. 
Ball was born in 1S02. He succeeded the late Dr. "Whitly Stckes as Director of 
the Museum in Trinily College. On the establishment of the Queen's University 
in Ireland, in 1851, he entered on the additional duties of Secretary of the Joint 
Committee of lectures in connexion with the Department of Science and Art ; 
and in 1855 he was nominated Assistant-Examinfr for Ireland to the Civil Service 
Committee. While hotding these several appointments he was an active mem- 
ber of most if not of all the scientific Societies of Dublin. He is best known as 
Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland and as Treasurer of the Royal 
Irish Academy,— an officer next in corporate rank to that of President. In 1850 
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