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a butterfiy, even with his hat, or even labouring amongst the broken heaps of 
stones by the road side, and he is immediately the acquaintance and soon the 
friend, of every naturalist who passes by. We are excited to these recollections 
from the polite attention we have received, as a stranger, from several of the mem- 
bers of the Newcastle Natural History Society, during a late excursion to the coal 
district of that neighbourhood. In our next number we shall give an account of 
this Institution, which ranks, in point of talented members, amongst the first of 
our provincial societies. 
LITERARY NOTICES. 
Works in the Press. 
_WE understand that a Posthumous Volume by the late Mr. ALEXANDER 
Batrour, Author of ‘ Campbell,” ‘ Contemplation and other Pcems,” 
*¢ Characters omitted in Crabbe’s Parish Register,” &c. &c. is in the press, and 
will be published in December. It is to be entitled ‘‘ Weeds and Wildflowers,” 
and prefaced by a Biographical Sketch of the Author, with Selections frem his 
Correspondence, and Original Letters from Sir Walter Scott, Dr. Robert An- 
derson, Delta, Mr. Pringle, Mr. Mudie, Dr. Brewster, &c. &c. The whole 
free profits of the publication are intended for the Author’s family. It will 
form a handsome post 8vo. 
An Historical and Topographical Atlas of England and Wales, exhibiting 
its Geographical Features during the Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman Go- 
verriments, is preparing by Thomas Allen.—Mr. Colburn has in preparation 
Travels in South America, across the Pampas, and in several parts of Peru, 
including a residence of Twelve Months at Potosi; by Sir Edward Temple, 2 
vols. 8vo.—Travels in the East; by John Carne, Esq. 1 vol. post 6vo.—In the 
Press, Delineations of the North-Western Division of the County of Somerset, 
with a Descriptive Account of the Antediluvian Bone Caverns in the Mendip 
Hills, and a Geological Sketch of the District ; by John Rutter. 
List of New Books. 
Wallich’s Plante Asiatiee, No. I. coloured, L.2, 10s. bds.—Hooker’s Flora 
Boreali Americana, No. I. L.1, 1s.—Collins’ Emigrants’ Guide to the United 
States, 12mo. 3s. 6d. bds.—Recollections of Italy, 4to. .1:11:6.—The Bota- 
nical Miscellany, No. I.; by Dr. Hooker, 10s. 6d.—Murray’s North Ameri- 
ca, 2 vols. 8vo. Li. 1, 7s.—Rose’s Four Years in South Africa, 8vo. 10s. 6d.— 
Higgins on Sight and Optical Instruments, 8vo. 7s.—Richard’s Elements of 
Botany, by Clinton, 8vo. 14s.—Thompson’s General Classical Atlas, folio, L.8, 
és.—Mr. Rhind’s Studies in Natural History, 1 vol. 8vo.—The British Natu- 
ralist, 18mo. 8s. 6d.—Landseer’s Animals, Part I. 4to. 9s.—Williams’ Geogra- 
phy of Ancient Asia, 9s. 6d. 
ERRATA. 
In the last Number, 
Page 198. Line 34. for Anales de Ciencias, read Ann. de Sciences. 
—— 156. —— 18. for Jarbiue read Jardine. 
W. CARTWRIGHT, Printer, Edinburgh. 
