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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLII : 
respect, it may be consulted with advantage by the curators of zoologi- 
cal collections. The classification of the animal kingdom is copiously 
treated of in the introduction. 
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Arsberattelser om nyare Zoologiska Arbeten ocb Upptack- 
ter, till K. Vetenskaps-Academien afgifnefor aren 1837-1840. 
Af. C. J. Smidewall. Stockh. 1841. 
This arrived too late for review in my last year’s report ; but I agree 
completely with the judgment of the editor of our Archives upon this 
solid work, and which he has appended in a note to my report. I am 
surprised, however, that my continuations of Schreber’s Mammalia seem 
only known to the author, from a notice of them in the Isis and in the 
Archives. It is a great pity, that the language in which this excellent 
review is written, should be a hindrance to its general circulation. 
Osservazioni sullo state della Zoologia in Europa, in quanto 
ai Vertebrati nell’ anno 1840-1841, lette li 27 Settembre, 
1841, alia terza riunione degli Scienziati Italiani da C. L. 
Principe Bonaparte. Firenza, 1842. 
An excellently written review, and very complete, so far as Italy, 
France, and England, are concerned, of the works which have appeared 
on Vertebrated Animals during the year 1840-41. German contributions 
are less noticed and knoAvn. A Pterologia, for example, is composed 
from the Pterylograpia of Nitzsch. According to the Prince, the Acts 
of the Naturce Curiosorum are quoted as gli Scritti dei vari Profes- 
sori di Bonn,” a misconception, probably arising from the Acta Naturae 
Curiosorum being published at Bonn. A compliment is paid to Southern 
Germany, that it sees new works daily appearing ; but then follows this 
dubious addition, that these works are of less importance since the death 
of Spix, Wagler, and Michaelles. The Mammalia of Schreibers (^. e. 
Schreber) is also praised. A work upon European Birds, besides the great 
one at Darmstadt, he proceeds to mention, as published by Susemilh 
(^. e. Susemihl) ; another by Berge, on the Propagation of Birds ; some 
zoological articles which have appeared in the Journal of Dr. Rohatsch ; 
and that Dr. Tiedemann still continues busy, weighing, measuring, and 
dissecting various brains. These the author supposes to be the con- 
tributions of Southern Germany. Of Holland, he speaks with praise, 
that natural historians are more abundant there than formerly ; and it is 
rather curious, that neither Vrolik, nor Schroder van der Kolk, nor 
S. Muller, although the principal contributors of treatises on that subject, 
nor Van der Hoeven, although editor of a periodical on Natural History, 
are mentioned at all, probably because their works are written in “ quel 
idioma poco o nulla familiare aU’ universale.” Temminck’s Monograph 
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