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European fame and use, no less than the very comprehensive 
Magazin de Zoologie of the same author. The Comptes 
Rendus de V Institute the journal of the same name (V Institute, 
which speaks not only of the French scientific bodies, but of 
those of the whole world, and the Eco du Mond Savant, are 
so many sonorous trumpets, which proclaim from Paris the 
progress of the natural sciences. 
M. Bourjeaud de St. Hilaire has given us a new volume on 
Parrots, being a continuation of those of Le Vaillant, much 
inferior, indeed, to that of the English artist Lear, yet not 
wholly deprived of merit. The celebrated Mademoiselle Pau- 
line de Courcelles, now Madame Knip, has commenced, with 
the literary aid of M. Florent Prevost, a writer not sufficiently 
active in following the rapidity of her pencil, a new series of 
Pigeons, not comprised in her former work, the text of which 
was written by M. Temminck, and of which a second edition 
is publishing, at the same time, as appears by the prospectus 
which I have laid before you. I should never end, were I to 
enumerate all the zoological undertakings, and all the zoolo- 
gists of eminence who adorn the French capital ; I therefore 
take leave of them, briefly alluding to Prince Massena, whose 
rich zoological collections, we hope, will ere long be made 
public. The entomologists Dejean and Boisduval, Kiener, 
profoundly occupied with his Iconographie des Coquilles, the 
encyclopaedic Bory de St. Vincent, who is now at the head of 
a scientific expedition, exploring Algiers (whence we may 
expect a work of not less interest than the magnificent ones 
on Egypt and the Morea, gained for science by the arms of 
France, or than those others which were the fruit of the 
various voyages round the world, of a Freycinet, a D’Urville, 
and others), do not permit me to leave Paids without at least 
mentioning their names. 
What shall I say of Lyons 1 The ninth Scientific Congress 
of France, there assembled from the 1st to the 12th of the 
present month, and at which I proposed to myself the honour 
of attending, did not give me the opportunity of revisiting this 
illustrious city ; but I was consoled, by reflecting how much 
the clergy of that and other dioceses abound wdth zealous 
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