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on the Grange estate ; the Coates estate near Bell's Mills and in the vicinity of 
the Botanic garden. But in the selection, let every care be taken to choose a 
dry, airy, but sheltered spot; one low arid damp, such as the Meadows, would 
soon be fatal to all the more tender animals, as has been already experienced in 
other institutions where a southern climate gave greater advantages. 
Histoire Naturette des lies Canaries Five numbers of this work by P. Bar- 
ker Webb, Esq. and M. Sabin Bertholet, had appeared in April last. It will be 
composed of 50 numbers, containing a portion of 4to letter-press, and five or 
six folio plates, and when completed will bind in three volumes. The first will 
be devoted to the History of the islands ; the second to the Zoology ; the third 
to the Botany. The plates, according to the subject, are engraved on copper or stone. 
Monograph of the Genus Oliva. M. Duclos has ready for publication a mo- 
nograph of the genus Oliva. The materials have been collecting for twenty-five 
years, and the series of shells to trace the variations of form, and marking, and 
colour is extremely rich. He reduces Lamarck's 67 species to 44, but adds to 
these 94, describing in all 138 species ; what he considers varieties are very ex- 
tensive, so many as 40 being sometimes ranged under one species. The plates, 
35 in number, are folio, beautifully executed, and the four last are devoted ex- 
clusively to anatomical details, and to the inhabitants of the shells, drawn from 
life. Rapport de M. Dumeril a I'Acad. de Scien. Jan. 1836. 
Voyage dans L 1 Amerique Meridionale D'Orbigny Eleven numbers of this 
beautiful and important work have reached us ; but the different portions of it 
appear in a manner so miscellaneous, that it is scarcely possible to give any good 
notion of it in its present state. Only two plates of the Mammalia, and one de- 
voted to botany have appeared, the Mollusca occupying the greater portion of the 
Zoological numbers. Of the descriptive part, written in the form of a journal, 
312 pages are published, occupying the two first years of the travels, chiefly in 
Paraguay, and are interesting, though perhaps the composition is not in the most 
elegant style. 
Temminck, Monographies et Recueil de planches coloriees The second volume 
of the " Monographies de Mammalogie" is now in the press, and will appear ere 
long ; it is now above eight years since the first volume was completed. The 
" Recueil de planches coloriees" has now reached its 93d livraison, and it is 
proposed to complete the first series with the 100th liv., being in all 595 plates, 
with 755 figures. An arranged catalogue of the pi. Enluminees, and the pi. 
Coloriees will accompany the last liv., of which a part has already appeared ; 
and on the completion of that series, M. Temminck proposes, if he meets with 
sufficient encouragement, to commence a second series as a continuation. Int. 
to Manuel d'Ornitol. Trois. part. 
New general History of Birds Mr Gould is preparing a general history of 
birds, to be published in numbers. The size, royal and imperial 4to, to range 
with Temminck's Planches coloriees, Wilson's N. A. Ornithology, &c. A 
figure of a typical form in each genus will be given, and, as far as possible, species 
which have" not been previously represented will be selected. The plates we 
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