130 Hodgson's Zoology of Nipal and Tibet. 



Nipal, and to all patrons and promoters of Indian talent, the pro- 

 posed work will have a double value as an unrivalled specimen of 

 Indian docility and ability. The home artist, who undertakes to 

 transfer the drawing to stone, is Mr. F. Howard, the celebrated illus- 

 trator of Harris, and Mr. Howard is anxious and ready to begin 

 his task. He proposes to commence with Quadrupeds, and to go 

 on to birds, to give first 100 of the former, and then so many of 

 the latter, as the public shall continue to call for. His terms for 

 100 Mammals, to be published each alternate month, are fifty rupees, 

 or ten rupees per part of twenty Illustrations, twenty inches by 

 twelve each in size. He requires 200 subscribers, and he hopes that 

 subscribers will not object to pay half in advance, or twenty-five for 

 the Quadrupeds to begin with, when a century of birds will be pro- 

 posed on the same terms. Whatever is necessary to exhibit the 

 essential conformation of each type or genus, will be given separately, 

 as the scull or stomach, or bill or feet; and care will be taken that 

 each and every Nipalese or Tibetan form or genus is exhausted before 

 the plates are suffered to run to too great a number. Thus for 

 five rupees per mensem, payable every second month, or for an ad- 

 vance of twenty-five rupees on the Mammals, the other twenty-five to 

 be paid on completion, every gentleman interested in science, or fond 

 of field sports, may obtain 100 Quadrupeds beautifully executed, and 

 fully explanatory : and then, upon the same terms, as many birds : 

 and we may add, that there is hardly an Indian Quadruped, that will 

 not fall within the scope of the work ; and but few Indian birds. 

 We shall be happy to receive intending subscribers' names, and refer- 

 ences for payment in England, or at the Indian presidencies. 



The Glacial Theory. 



When noticing the Annals and Magazine oj Natural His- 

 tory in the October No. of the Calcutta Journal of Natural 

 History, 1841, we adverted to the views then beginning to 

 prevail relative to the effects of glaciers. 



The subject still continues to engross the attention of 

 geologists, and most of the scientific journals are occupied with 



