Catalogue Raisonné. 311 
The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society, &c. No. 
III. Price 2s. 6d. London. Thomas Tegg. 
After some little delay, the third number of this elegant little publication 
has made its appearance. Though brought out under the superinten- 
dance of the secretary and vice-secretary of the Zoological Society, it 
has no pretension to a display of scientific knowledge, and all details 
which would not be interesting to the general reader are avoided. We 
cannot say that this will much favour the dissemination of any real 
knowledge of the natural sciences ; but as a work of art it yields to no 
contemporary. Its illustrations are indeed the ne plus ultra of the art 
of wood-cutting, and the tail-pieces are so perfect and beautiful in them- 
selves, that both in this and the former numbers, they give the most 
agreeable surprise, and transport us to a fairy land of natural history. 
Recherches sur quelques-unes des Revolutions de la surface du 
Globe, &c. By M. Erie pe Beaumont.—Annales des Sciences 
Naturelles, Sept. 1829. 
This paper is an attempt to study the relative age of the dislocations which 
mineral beds may have undergone, the phenomena of the displacement 
of strata in mountain chains, and the abrupt variations which occur, at 
different heights, in the position and inclination of sedimentary rocks. 
Mr. Cuvier has shown that the surface of the globe has undergone a 
series of sudden and violent revolutions. Mr. Leopold de Buch has no- 
ticed the well-marked differences between the different systems of moun- 
tains which can be traced on the map of Europe. The author attempts 
to bring these two series of considerations into the relation which they 
hear to one another. The present essay only contains the application of 
his views to the revolution which occurred between the period of the 
deposition of the oolitic limestone and that of the green sand and chalk, 
the elevation of the beds of the Erzgebirge, of the Cote d’Or, and of 
Mount Pilas. 
Geological Essay on the Tertiary Basin of Albenga. By Acos- 
TINO Sasso.—Guorn. ligustico di Scienze, &c. 1828. p. 467. 
These formations are very analogous to those which generally compose the 
whole of the Sub-Appenine hills, and are formed of three distinct parts, 
which, going from below upwards, are, 
1. micaceous slate, full of shells, analogous to the blue marls of Broc- 
chi. 
2. A yellow shale, representing the calcareous sands of Brocchi, contain- 
ing fewer fossils, and constituted in its middle part of solid arenaceous 
and calcareous beds, forming a kind of macigno, and known under the 
name of rock of Finale. 
3. Beds of transported rocks, consisting of calcareous boulders in a marly 
cement, containing no organic remains. 
The author gives an enumeration of the fossils, amounting to 174, which 
have been found in this tertiary deposit, some of which arenew. Mr. 
Sasso has established a new genus, under the name of Limopsis, which 
contains the Arca aurita of Brocchi. 
Toenix found in Water, by Barr at Keenigsberg. (Verhand- 
lungen des Gesellschaft naturforsch Freunde in Berlin, T. I. Cah. 
6.) 
The observation of Linneus, that teenie have been seen in water has been 
much doubted. Mr. Baer and his friend Eysenhardt, have, however, 
just observed the same fact near the mouth of the Pregel, two leagues 
from Keenigsberg. There was a spot where the water was full of indi- 
viduals belonging to the species Botriocephalus solidus, and they obtain- 
ed four living specimens. But at the same time there was in that spot a 
considerable quantity of the small fish known by the name of Jack-sharp, 
