228 Scientific Intelligence. 
has been sent to the Royal Museum of Edinburgh by the Mar- 
quis of Hastings. 
26. Boj anus's Anatomy of the Testudo . — We have much 
pleasure in informing our readers, particularly those who culti- 
vate anatomy and physiology, that the second fasciculus of 
Boj anus’s celebrated work, 44 Anatome Testudinis Europaeae,” is 
just published. The extraordinary accuracy of the author, his 
uncommon ingenuity in explaining the relations and meanings 
of the different parts, and the accuracy and elegance of the draw- 
ings, are so universally acknowledged, as to require no com- 
mendation from us. 
27. Helix Carychium of Gmelin . — The shell which is here 
referred to, was first described by Muller, the celebrated zoolo- 
gist of Denmark, in his 44 Vermium Terrestrium et Fluviati- 
lium Historia,” published in 1773. The characters furnished 
by the aperture of the shell, and by the position of the eyes 
and number of the tentacula of the inhabitant, induced him 
to institute a new genus for its reception, which he termed 
carychium, employing minimum as its trivial appellation. 
Lamarck, many years after, in his 44 Systeme des Animaux sans 
Vertebras,” 1801, formed the genus auricula to include some 
extra European species of Voluta. But as this genus differs 
in no respect from the Carychium of Muller, its creation 
is to be regretted, as adding to the number of unprofitable sy- 
nonimes. Cuvier, in his 44 Regne Animal,” 1817, adopts the 
genus as named by his countryman, and, by inattention to habit, 
ranges it with his 44 Pulmones aquatiques,” instead of placing 
it after Pupa, (along with the vertigo of Muller, which he 
overlooks,) among the Pulmones terrestres. The Carychium 
minimum is very common in Great Britain, inhabiting moist 
places among moss and dead leaves. It was first figured and 
described (though in an imperfect manner,) as British, in the 
44 Testacea Minuta Rariora” of Boys and Walker, 1784, as a 
Turbo, (No. 51.) in which genus it has been retained by Mon- 
tagu, and other British conchologists. Draparnaud figured and 
described two other species among the testaceous mollusca of 
France . — Dr Fleming. 
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28. Instinctive attachment of the Linnet to its brood,— 
The following anecdote of the common grey linnet has been 
