160 Literary Notices. 
LITERARY NOTICES. 
Works in the Press. 
Preparing for publication, Azara’s Natural History of Paraguay, translated 
into English from the original Spanish ; with a Life of the Author, and Ex- 
planatory Notes, by Percival Huuter, Esq.—Messrs. Raspail and Talrich in- 
tend publishing a Collection of Wax Models of the French Fungi: two livrai- 
sons will appear every month from the Ist of October, and each livraison will 
be composed of four distinct species, each represented by five individuals, in- 
tended to display the different ages and aspects, and the anatomy of the organs 
_in the species ; the price of each livraison will be 40 francs.—The Travels of 
M. Caille to Timbuctoo, are preparing for publication in London.—Professor 
Sibbern is about to publish the first number of a Philosophical Journal, which 
will be completed in a given number of volumes.—Messrs. Olsen and Breds- 
darff are about to publish a geographic map of all Europe. These gentlemen 
were honoured with a prize by the Geographical Society of Paris, and their 
map was subsequently approved by the learned society at Copenhagen.—Mr. 
Cowper Rose, Civil Engineer, is about to publish Travels in South Africa.— 
W. Curry & Co. Dublin, announce the Northern Tourist, or Stranger’s Guide 
to the north and north-west of Ireland.—An Historical Account of -Discove- 
ries and Travels in North America, &c. including the shores of the Polar Sea, 
with Observations on Emigration, is announced by Hugh Murray, Esq.—Mr. 
Rhind has preparing for publication, Popular Studies in Natural History.— 
On the Ist of November will be published, a New Aunual for Youth, under 
the title of the Zoological Keepsake, Price 6s. 6d. 
The great botanical work begun in 1802 by Venus, Palmstruch, and Quensel, 
and continued by Svartz and Billberg, under the title of Svensk Botanik, is to be 
published under the superintendence of the Royal Academy cf Sciences. The 
108th number, published at Upsal in 1825, completed the ninth volume. In this 
work 648 excellent engravings and about 700 etchings have already appeared. 
List of New Books. 
Mignan’s Travels in Chaldee, 1 vol. 8vo. 14s.—Hardy’s Travels in the Inte- 
rior of Mexico, 1 vol. 8vo. 16s.—Ward’s Mexico, 2 vols. 8vo. L.2, 2s.—Gran- 
ville’s St. Petersburgh, 2 vols. 8vo. L. 2, 2s.—Humboldt’s Travels, vol. vii. 8vo. 
14s.—Macfarlane’s Constantinople in 1828, 2d edit. 2 vols. 8vo. 31s. 6d. and App. 
Ne oe Saute Horse, in all his varieties and uses; by John Lawrence, | vol. 
2mo. 12s. 
ERRATA. 
In the last Number, 
Page 14. Line 25. for square read broad. 
50. 2. for sanguinalis read sanguinaria. 
— 75. —— 6. for Hisinger read Haidinger. 
75. 8. after F insert 3. 
for mollusce and crustacee, read mollusca and crustacea, passim. 




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