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BOOKS, &c., RECEIVED. 



" Proceedings of Liverpool Geological Society." — London : Sampson Low & Co. 

 1860. 



" Proceedings of the Warwickshire Field Club." 



*' Comparative View of the Human and Animal Frame." By B. Waterhouse 

 Hawkins, F.G.S.— London : Chapman & Hall. 1860. . 



" Descriptions of New Species of Unionidee from Georgia, Mississipi, and Texas, 

 nnd on various Forms of Unionidse." By Isaac Lea, LLJ). — Philadelphia: Mer- 

 rihew & Thompson. 1860. 



" Answer to Hugh Miller and Theoretic Geologists." By Thomas A. Davies. — 

 New York : Rudd & Carlton ; London : Sampson Low & Co. 



" The Canadian Naturalist." April, 1860. 



"Manchester Geological Society's Journal of Transactions." April, 1860. 



" Abstracts of Proceedings of the Royal Institution." 



" Abstracts of Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries." 



