8 1 8 Notices of Books. [NO. 4, ME w B B B l B8, 



Natural History. 

 Flora Alyeria. — M. Corson is continuing to publish his Flora of Algeria, 

 and is about to take a 4th Botanical trip into that country. He proposes 

 to examine the numerous cases of the so called desert of Sahara. On the 

 mountains of Atlas at each journey species have been discovered which 

 were supposed to be peculiar to Egypt or Arabic— Ed. Phil. Jour. April 

 1S57. 



Amerkan Oology. — u We have in the press the first part of Dr. Brown 's 

 great work on American 0<>/oyi/. It will include the rapacious birds, and 

 perhaps the swallows. There will be five quarto plates to this part, all the 

 figures taken in pbotograph, from the original eggs, and printed in colors. 

 The result is extremely beautiful and accurate." — {Letter from Dr. Bird, 

 Smithsonian institute, Washington.) — Ed. Phil. Jour. April 1857. 



Mr. F. .Moore communicated a paper ' On the habits of some birds ob- 

 served in the jdains of X. W. India in 1819,' by the Rev. T. Philipps, 

 Baptist Missionary. The names of the birds described in this paper (sixty 

 in number) had been determined by comparison with specimens in the 

 Museum of the Hon. East India Company. 



Mr. Moore read a paper containing descriptions of some new species of 

 Lepidopterous insects from Northern India, characterized as follows : — 

 Pierit Noma, E. Doubleday, M. S., P. Seta,, Moore ; P. Sanaca, Moore j 

 P. Ltdra, Moore ; P. Durvaaa, Moore ; and Papilio Janaka, Moore. — D. 

 W. M. 



Miscellaneous. 



Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia, by Lady Sheil, London, 

 1857, in 8vo. (402 pages.) 



This book is thus noticed in the Journal Asiatique for April — 

 May 1857, and we have much pleasure in endorsing the reviewer's 

 opinions upon it, who informs us that,— 



" Lady Sheil accompanied her husband Colonel Sheil, during his em- 

 bassy in Persia and passed 3 £ years in the country, principally at Tehe- 

 ran ; she made once a voyage to Ispahan and passed a summer in the 

 mountains of Mazenderan. An elegant accomplished lady, she took the 

 trouble to learn to speak Persian, and she communicates to us, in an agree- 

 able and unpretending manner, her observations on the manners and cus- 

 toms of the country, and on every thing that she had an opportunity of 



