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tion into England, to which interest is attached, and this is due to 

 Mr. Griffith. Now we cannot for a moment suppose it to have been 

 the object of the writers of these various notices to mis-represent 

 any circumstance connected with these improvements. From the 

 manner in which they are printed, we should rather infer, that they 

 have been inserted in the Journal of the Agri-Horticultural Society, 

 and copied into the India Review, unconscious of what has appeared 

 on the subject in various daily papers and periodicals during the 

 last two years.* 



Notice of 3$ooft0, 



The Birds of Australia. By J. Gould, F.L.S., &c, Parts I. 

 to VI, folio. London, 1840-41. 



We are indebted to Messrs. Thacker and Co. for an 

 inspection of this very splendid work on the Birds of New 

 Holland by Mr. Gould, favourably known to the Indian 

 Ornithologist, as the author of the no less beautiful Centuary 

 of Himalayan Birds ; in which, as well as in the present 

 work on the Ornithology of New Holland, the figures were 

 drawn by Mrs. Gould, a lady possessed of the very highest 

 degree of taste in this peculiar branch of art. In the 

 work now before us, there is more sobriety and real life 

 in the figures, although perhaps the attitudes and gorgeous 

 colouring of the Centuary of Himalayan Birds may be more 

 striking. The figures in most cases are represented accord- 

 ing to their natural size, generally either in the act of alight- 



* The introduction of the Deodar, a magnificent Himalayan tree, into England, which is 

 due chiefly to Dr. Falconer, is also ascribed (in these Memoranda, which form the leading arti- 

 cle in the second number of the Journal of the Agri-Horticultural Society) to Dr. Roylc, 

 in virtue of some office which the latter holds at the India House. The sooner such an office 

 be abolished, we should think, the better ; were it to give the person holding it any claim over 

 the services of officers in India. 



