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Journey to India by the North of Europe, Sfc, during the 

 years 1823, 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829. By M. C. Belan- 

 GER, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Sfc, late Super- 

 intendent, Royal Garden at Pondichery, ^c. 



The zoological results of this journey published under 

 the auspices of the Ministers of Marine and Interior, are by 

 M. Belanger himself^ assisted by MM. Isidore GeofFroy St. 

 Hilaire, Lesson, Valenciennes, Deshayes, and Guerin, in 

 the several departments in which these gentlemen are dis- 

 tinguished. The work consists of an octavo volume, and a 

 quarto volume of plates. It is preceded by the following 

 verbal report to the Academy of Sciences by M. F. Cuvier, 

 which affords a better general view of the nature and object 

 of the work than we could give. We wish our own Go- 

 vernment would take a lesson from the French, who seeing 

 the interest of science neglected in the colonies of other 

 rival nations, with an enlightened policy peculiar to the 

 French, depute their own philosophers to supply the desi- 

 deratum. 



I have now, says M. F. Cuvier, to render to the Academy a 

 statement of the zoological results of M. Belanger's Journal 

 in the East Indies, which has been required of me. On 

 a former occasion, we have stated how much M. Belan- 

 ger has benefitted various branches of science ; and by his 

 long and laborious excursions, enriched the study of '^Na- 

 tural History, to which object his zeal has been directed 

 amidst numerous dangers, even under the influence of a 

 malady to which he fell a victim, from his love of science 

 to which he was devoted, and which he pursued under 

 no other aid than such as he secured for himself. It 

 is our duty to-day to devote to him the numerous mate- 

 rials which are distinguished in the reports of which we 



