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pressi, cestiformes, excepto pari secundo maxillffi superioris, qui curieiformes 
ceterisque longiores ; characteres reliqui a Balistibus non different Species 
Xen. niger, Riipp. 
In conclusion of this short analysis, we may observe, that the 
plates are lithographic, and are accurately drawn and well coloured. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
A History of British Quadrupeds. By THOMAS BELL, F. R. S., &c. 
Illustrated by a wood-cut of each Species, and numerous Vig- 
nettes. Nos. i. ii. London, Von Voorst. 8vo. 1836. 
THIS work is commenced upon the same plan, and in the same 
beautiful style of typography and wood-cutting with Mr Yarrell's 
British Fishes* to which we expect it will prove a worthy companion. 
The whole of the first number and the greater portion of the second, 
are devoted to the Cheiroptera; and although the size of the wood- 
cuts is rather against the marking of the distinctive characters of 
this difficult family, this is at once remedied by vignettes devoted to 
these parts, being of the natural size, which renders the explanation 
distinct, and the characters easily seized upon. These are taken by 
Mr Bell principally from the proportions of the ear and tragus, and 
from the relative proportions of the ear to the head and tragus, to- 
gether with the formula of dentition. The notch-eared bat, Vesp. 
emarginatus, Geoff, is given as British, on the authority of the meagre 
description of its discoverer, who says that it was received, ' ' at some 
distance from Dover." This increases the British list of Fespertiliones 
to twelve, eleven being described in Jenyns's Manual, and the V. 
emarginatus of that author being in the present work considered iden- 
tical with the V. Daubentonii, Leis. The work will be completed in 
eight numbers, at 2s. 6d. each, the first of which appeared on the 
1st July, and we promise an analysis upon its completion. 
Rumphia. Siv e commentationes botanicce imprimis de plantis Indice 
orientalis, turn penitus incognitis, turn quce in libris Rheedii, Rum- 
phii, Roxburghii, Wallichii, aliornmque recensentur, auctore C. 
L. BLUME. 
COMMENCED under the care of Professor Blume, as a supplement 
to the " Flora Javse" of that botanist, of the same size, and si- 
* We may announce the completion of Mr Yarrell's work, which it will soon 
be our duty to notice more minutely. The two last numbers were received too 
late to prepare an analysis for our present number. 
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