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FAUNA ANTIQUA SIVALENSIS, 
THE FOSSIL ZOOLOGY OF THE SEWALIK HILLS, IN THE NORTH OF INDIA. 
Artillery, Member of the Asiatic Society et Bengal, and of ,h. Royal Asiatic Society, Ac. Edited by Fa™, ’ ’ J " " ‘ h<i B “f! al 
“ ol,p ”‘ "‘““ nins: ftomTwel ™ n-*-**. 
Parts 1 to 6 contain Proboscidea.— P art 7, HippopotamiDaE.— P art 8, Sum® and Rhujocerotid® 
in ‘.‘htZrt,! ir,? nse lab0U L and ~ h ' ■ • • Nothing has ever appeared in lithography 
osseonsT™iTrl hvM T P a ra .R e t0 theSI ; rlates; and as re S ards lhe representations of minute 
rnnntrv ’ by ^ Ford > , luy are P erha P s the most perfect that have yet been produced in any 
S Tl ? e wrhhas commenced with the Elephant group, in which the authors say 
§ a ! ,y dls P layed the numerical richness of forms which characterizes the Fossil Fauna of 
have not cha P ter /elates to the Proboscidea— Elephant and Mastodon. The authors 
the affinWer, la * he “ s( f es to a descript, on of the Sewalik Fossil torrai, fi„t they propose to trace 
Thev rive n hr?^ ‘HI an arrangement of all the well-determined species in the family. 
nalJnrUnllLe I hl ®‘ oncal ak etch of the leading opinions which have been entertained by 
palaeontologists respecting the relations of the Mastodon and Elephant to each other, and of the 
tbe f“ very ,°f ' "7 f0 ™ s which ha '' e Ied ‘o modifications of these opinions 
They state that the results to winch they themselves have been conducted, lead them to differ on 
certain points from the opinions most commonly entertained at the present day respecting the fossil 
&;^h P Feb nt ll?6. 0/ Preside J of the aU.Lu LiJ^} 
“ Few men deserve higher commendations for the laborious nature of their investigations and 
the important results to which they have led, than Dr. Falconer and Major Cautley 
n wn hi m ! , b ? ar , out tb ?, promise of the First Part > hove no hesitation in sayiig fhai 
it will be the most important contribution ever made to the science of Geology .”— AthenJum 
COMPLETION OE 
SIR JOHN HERSCHEL’S SURVEY OF THE HEAVENS. 
RESULTS OF ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS 
In 1 vol. royal 4to., with 1 8 Plates, price Four Guineas. 
m-esentL as m ill Z?- f li norlhern [ e S 10ns > Published in various scientific transactions, and 
father had C,! I .f visible in our latitude, the most sc'isfactory termination of what his 
Sir Tnh, h!S! 7J 8 tbe r ord t f™ mal,on with reference to the resources of our own day— 
firvev of H thf hesv^f m, Au d *? at ,‘ he same e y e an(i ‘he same instrument should complete the 
nhoniL f th heavens. AH who have ever heard two different observers speak of the same 
of'expcution' th ?‘ tbe Talue , of ‘he additional labour is much increased by this uniformity 
UOn * E , Ve 7 l i ,ng u S ex P ressed ,n words of the same meaning; the astronomer of every 
! a ?. l * ud f “ ayre . ad of **! e ‘hmgs he cannot see as with a dictionary, by comparing what he can see 
with the description given of it. Sir John Hersehel set off with his family for the Cape of Good 
tov ^‘“peldha'^n 18 ' W ’ and r retur “ ed ‘o England in the spring of 1838. lie mounted his observa- 
tory at Feldhausen, six miles from Cape Town, at the foot of Table Mountain, and there performed 
for the southern hemisphere what he had already done for the northern. The years which have 
eiapsed since his return have been employed in the drudgery which astronomers" call reduction of 
the observations, a process possessing about as much of the interest of science as casting nn the 
accounts of the commissariat has of the romance of war. The scientific world is all the more 
obliged. Many an astronomer has been a useless star-gazer because he found peeping and 
measuring more pleasant than reducing. 
“It is not for our space to give scientific details' of the contents of such a work. Like all that 
comes from masters of their craft, there is much in it which is easier to read than the unlearned 
would suppose. Sir John Hersehel, as sound a scholar and elegant a writer as he is a profound 
mathematician, and a practised experimenter and observer, possesses a power over language and a 
command of it for the purposes of description, which is rarely equalled in any walk of literature 
The volume before us (which, we must mention, was printed at the expense of the late Duke of 
Northumbeiland) has taken its place among the records of astronomy, and among those of highest 
value, as it were, of course .”— Daily News. 8 B 01 m 8 nest 
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GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING THE VOYAGE OF H.M. 8. BEAGLE, 
Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. 
By CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., Sec. G. S. &c. 
Part I.— ON CORAL FORMATIONS. 
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I. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ZOOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
By Andrew Smith, M.D., Surgeon to the Forces, and Director of the Expedition. 7 AtnCan 
, t W Q uarto Parts price I Os. and 1 2s. each, containing on an average ten beautifully coloured Engravings, with Descriptive Letterpress The whole 
of the Plates are engraved in the highest style of art, from the Original Drawings taken expressly for this Work, and biStiSitySS after nire. 
i wenty-six Parts are now published ; and the work will be speedily completed. 
II. 
THE BOTANY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SULPHUR. 
7 7—^ V 
Tms Work is now Complete, and may be bad in six sewed Parts, price 31., or in half-rnssia, or cloth binding, at a small addition to the price. 
III. 
THE ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SULPHUR 
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, attached to the Expedition. ’ ‘ ’ 
c v 3^“r^Lt1Sr” ! ‘T, S be , e ? n dnc *; ie «' r % nsw "t— •«- *• 
hitherto new o, unfigured. The collection hae been assembled from a varietVoTe " ’ t° '"' ' l' l ' C , 1 , a . f orm ’ Wlth illustrations of such as are 
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