REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
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We presume it is needless to add—what ever}^ mammalogist knows—that this 
is by far the best work extant treating of our native quadrupeds. It is inscribed 
to Mr. John Morgan, F.L.S., surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, “ in grateful memorial 
of a long and uninterrupted friendship.” We could wish that the plan of 
dedicating their labours to their brethren in the field of science were more fre¬ 
quently adopted by naturalists—it is a testimony of esteem equally gratifying to 
the bestower and the receiver. 
The ’Entomological Magazine. Nos. xix. and xx. April and July, 1837. 
London : R. Clay, Bread-street-Hill. 
The current report, that the Entomological Magazine was likely to be discon¬ 
tinued, appears to have had no foundation, though we fear there are not enough 
scientific entomologists in this country to support a periodical similar in 
character to the present. A large proportion of the work is written in Latin, 
for what earthly purpose we really are at a loss to imagine. The leading article 
in No. XX., entitled “ Wanderings and Ponderings of an Insect-hunter,” has, in 
our opinion, no business in the Entomological Magazine ; for, although sufficiently 
interesting, it really contains nothing bearing in any way on Entomology. That 
it is desirable to introduce papers of a popular nature into these works, we fully 
admit, but surely the study of insects might afford matter much more interesting 
and valuable to the majority of readers of the periodical than the Wanderings 
and Ponderings above alluded to.—Mr. Christy’s “ Notes of a Voyage to Alton, 
Hammerfest, &c.,” form an excellent paper, and Mr. Walker’s treatise ‘‘ On the 
Eryinidae^ &c.,” is carefully drawn up, and calculated to be of much use to the 
student, who may here also brush up his knowledge of the Latin tongue, 
which, mayhap, he has hitherto permitted to slumber in peace since his school¬ 
boy days. 
No. xix., we may observe, opens with an excellent treatise entitled “ Re¬ 
searches on the Insects injurious to the Vine, known to the Ancients and 
Moderns, and on the Means of preventing their Ravages,” by Baron Walckenaer, 
but, in our opinion, 46 pages ought never to be devoted in any periodical 
to a translation^ whatever may be the merits of the paper.'^'—Both these num¬ 
bers contain several valuable articles, and the journal is edited by Mr. Edward 
Newman. 
It is to be hoped, that we shall at least receive credit for good intentions in 
* A translation of the Baron’s article also appeared in an early number of Taylor’s Scientific 
Memoirs. 
