IN EUROPE — RUSSIA. 
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to countries which boast of being far more civilized. The 
recent labours of the same author, on the Pelecanidce and the 
Alcidce, rival his former writings on the Hystrices and the 
Solenodon. 
We may here speak of a Kussian work, though printed at 
Paris in the French language ; the Travels in South Eussia 
of Prince Demidoff, who after himself directing an expedition 
that would do honour to a state, whether we consider the 
individuals that composed it, or the measures taken to ensure 
the most successful results, has spared no effort to render his 
work perfect, accompanied as it is with all the typographic 
splendour which the French metropolis supplies. The zoolo- 
gical part of the work is wholly from the pen of Nordmann, 
who has also superintended the execution of the magnificent 
plates, among which those of Mammalia and Fish are specially 
to be admired. The text supplies a desideratum in the Euro- 
pean Fauna, which was very deficient in its eastern portion ; 
and it will, therefore, deserve an attentive examination. Of 
the Batrachians no notice is taken, and some orthographical 
errors have occurred, to me, which sometimes obscure the 
sense; as, for instance, the Serpent, called Callopeltis leo~ 
pardinus, has no other resemblance with Ccelopeltis than that 
of the name. Useful observations, however, I need hardly 
remark, are deduced from every part of the work, and the two 
following have occurred to me in merely turning over the 
pages : — The Pleuronectes nasutus of Pallas, is nothing else 
than the Sole of Porro (Solea lascaris of Eisso) ; an inspection 
of the plate of the Callionymus festivus, has convinced me, 
that it is my Callionymus dramnmlus, the fish so called by 
Eondeletius and Linnaeus. The especial memoir on the 
Pastor roseus, whose habits were not previously well known, 
is deserving of all praise. The observations on the Scales of 
Fish, by Professor Mandl, are the more important, because 
they serve to correct some misconceptions of Agassiz, although 
they are far from weakening his theory on the growth of scales, 
which is the foundation of his system of Ichthyology. 
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