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though they did not come themselves, they had sent their representatives.—The 
sect of the worthy preacher is not mentioned; but, to whatever class or genus 
the congregation might appertain, the pastor had evidently as much of the Fox 
about him as most of his fraternity. 
GEOLOGY. 
4. New Fossil Carnivora. —The indefatigable M. Lartet, of whose labours 
we have so often spoken, announces the discovery of two fossil Carnivora , one of 
which appears to constitute a sub-genus, intermediate between the Badger and 
the Otter, and the second approaching to the Dog, differing but little from that 
gigantic fossil which he has described under the name of Amphicyon. He is of 
opinion that the latter is the same animal as that of which some remains were 
found at Epelsheim, and which constitutes the genus Agnotherium of M. Kaup. 
“ There are,” says M. Lartet, “ a considerable number of fossil mammifera found 
on the borders of the Rhine, which appear to me to be identical with those which 
are daily brought to light at the foot of the Pyrennees. These affinities are the 
more interesting, because the intermediate countries, Auvergne, for instance* 
possessed very different races of animals.” 
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An Introduction to the Natural History of Fishes; being the Article “Ich¬ 
thyology,” from the Seventh Edition of the Fncgclopcedia Britannica. With 
above 130 Illustrations. By James Wilson, F.R.S.E., M.W.S., &c. Edinburgh: 
A. and C. Black; Simpkinand Co ., London. 1838. 4to. pp. 90. 
It is well known that in Ichthyology, as in other branches of Zoology, Aris¬ 
totle and Pliny were the world’s earliest instructors: and such was the real 
labour and ability at that time necessary to produce a work on Natural History* 
and such the paucity of labourers in this wide field, that, subsequent to the time 
of the above-named authors, many centuries elapsed before any works of note* 
were laid before the public. In the lapse of time, indeed, a few books were 
published; but they were mere meagre compilations from the ponderous tomes of 
their more worthy predecessors. At length, however, light again dawned with 
renewed splendour, about the middle of the sixteenth century, when Belon, 
Rondelet, and Salviani may be said to have laid the foundation of modern 
Ichthyology. Towards the close of the seventeeth century, our illustrious 
