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Notices of Boohs. [no. 3, new series. 



Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet ; by M. l'Abbe 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 Athenaeum, (April 25, 1857) " be accepted 

 as philosophically impartial, it will at least enjoy the credit of being 

 thoroughly interesting." 



Les Anglais el V Inde ; by M. le Mor. Fridolin, which has appear- 

 ed in the last few numbers of the Revue'des Deux Mondes is con- 

 cluded at page 298 of the Revue for the 15th March last, vol. VIII. 



Mon. Fridolin has divided his subject into five parts and treated 

 them in the following order. 



1 . Les Fonctionnaires civils de 1' Honorable Compagnie des Indes. 

 (Vol. VI. p. 301.) 



2. L'Education des Hindous, les prisons et les Moyens de 

 repression contre lesKhonds, les Thugs etles Datturias.(Vol. VII. 

 p. 768.) 



3. Le Commerce, les Finances et les Travaux publics sous le 

 Government de l'Honorable Compagnie. (Vol. VII. p. 357,) 



4. L' Armee Anglo-Hindoue, Maeurs et Scenes Militaires dans 

 Tlnde. (Vol. VII. p. 721.) 



5. Les Grandes villes de l'lnde, deux mois sur le Great Trunk- 

 Road. (Vol. VIII. p. 241. 



The death of Dr. Robert Ball, Secretary of the.Royal Zoologi- 

 cal Society of Ireland is thus reported by the Athenceum of the 18th 

 of April, p. 505. 



" From Dublin we hear of the sudden death of Dr. Robert Ball,— an esteemed 

 Naturalist, whose name was recently brought under the reader's notice in connex- 

 ion with the arrangements for the next meeting af the British Association. Dr. 

 Ball was born in 1802. He succeeded the late Dr. Whitly Stokes as Director of 

 the Museum in Trinity 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-Examiner for Ireland to the Civil Service 

 Committee. "While holding 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 



