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STATE OF ZOOLOGY 
published in common, and which has already thrown much 
light on the Fish of Europe, including even the southern parts. 
And although some errors occm" in it, they certainly appear 
to arise not from negligence or from wrong views, but from 
hypercriticism. The continuation of this work is rendered the 
more valuable, now that Sundevall has joined in the undertaking, 
and the Latin translation which accompanies it will make it 
more extensively known. 
DENMAEK. 
Denmark also contributes to the advancement of Zoological 
Science. It is from thence that Lund departed to South 
America, where he has collected a rich harvest of antediluvian 
animals. The Transactions also of their Academies testify to 
Danish science, as do the writings of Professor Eeinwardt, 
and among which I ought specially to mention his excellent 
description of the celebrated Bogmaro, a Fish of the genus 
Tradiypterus ; also the Danish Ichthyology, in course of pub- 
lication by Kroyer, who, moreover, has published a Journal 
of Natural History since the year 1836. 
EUSSIA. 
The vast empire of Eussia is also powerful in Science, of 
which we have an incontrovertible proof, in the honourable 
rivalry between the two Academies of Moscow and Petersburg. 
Nor let us wonder, that it flourishes under the direction of an 
Ouwarow, who gave us a written proof of his great and valuable 
interest in the Italian Congress. After the impulse given by 
the long desired publication of the Fauna Rossica of Pallas, a 
Krynicki, an Eichwald, a Mene tries, a Brandt, a Nordmanii, 
strove to reap the well sown field. Of M. Brandt’s writings, 
I have only seen the first and second parts of his Spicilegia 
Ornithologica, which make me impatient for their continua- 
tion, inasmuch as the learning there exhibited, would do honour 
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