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But perhaps the best and most philosophic work on general Zoology still 
remains uncompleted. We allude to the series in course of publication in Lard- 
ner’s Cabinet Cyclopcedia^ by William Swainson, Esq. It professes to be a 
condensed text-book of the science, and this purpose it will, we confidently anti¬ 
cipate, fulfil in a most satisfactory manner. This series contains an exposition of 
the quinary system well worthy of careful and repeated perusal, and will tend yet 
further to increase the well-merited celebrity of its talented author. The 
Naturalist's Library is too extensively known to require any notice in this 
place. 
The last work to be mentioned treating of Zoology in general is Partington’s 
Cyclopcedia of Natural History. It is too evidently published with a view to the 
publisher’s purse, and contains faults of all kinds; but still it conveys an im¬ 
mense mass of instructive matter in a cheap and portable manner, and, though 
imperfect, it will be found very useful for reference. 
We now turn to works on general Zoology treating of particular countries or 
districts, and this department will be found much richer than that which we have 
just left. Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina (1731, 2 vols. folio), is a 
splendid publication, with fine coloured plates, and descriptive letter-press. The 
edition published by Edwards in 1771 is, we presume, still to be had. The 
Fauna Groenlandica of Fabricius, and Linnaeus’s Fauna Suecica^ are 
both esteemed valuable, as also is Illiger’s Frodromus Mammalium et Avium. 
Muller may be consulted for his Zoologia Hanica (4 vols., folio, 1788—1806). 
Berkenhout’s Synopsis of the Natural History of Britain (2 vols., 1789) and 
Turton’s British Fauna (1807, 12mo.) are too antiquated to be of any value 
at the present day : the same sentence may be passed on a book, on the whole, 
excellent for the time at which it appeared (1828), but which is now useless,— 
Fleming’s British Animals. We have much pleasure in recommending, in its 
stead, Mr. Jenyns’s Manual of British Vertebrate Animals (8vo., 1835), a 
highly creditable volume. Pennant’s British Zoology^ once a popular book, may 
now safely be laid aside, but his Arctic Zoology., with figures (3 vols., 4to., 1792), 
is excellent. Shaw’s Naturalist 's Miscellany and Zoological Lectures are not now 
highly thought of. Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne has passed 
through innumerable editions. It is a perfect model for the spirit in which 
it is written, and will ever be esteemed valuable. Nor ought we to forget the 
“amiable wanderer,” Charles Waterton, Esq., of Walton Hall, in this county, 
whose delightful and original Wanderings in South America has passed through 
three editions. 
We must, however, now retrograde a little in order to notice a few works of 
older date, and amongst these Brisson’s Regnum Animate, Swainson’s Zoological 
Illustrations, and Richardsons and Swainson’s FaunaBorealiAmericana if vols.) 
