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Professor Phillips gives a concise but most important biographical notice of William Smith, L.L.D., the “father of English geology." Dr. Bachman then describes another species, with two varieties, of the squirrels : Dr. Drummond notices and figures one Irish Entozoon: Mr. Hope characterizes a new species of Lamia: Mr. V. Wood distinguishes the four species of the genus Lima, and two species of the sub-genus Limatula, from the coralline crag: Mr. Long and Mr. Yarrell record the discovery of the nest and eggs of a common Cross-bill found in Surrey : Mr. Saunders points out the localities of forty plants growing about Kirtlington, and Mr. Charlesworth contributes an additional section to his illustrated zoological notices. Reviews of three books, a French, a German, and an English-Beale's on the Spermwhale, with a plate-conduct you to the editorial article, having reference chiefly to the characters of the Stonesfield fossil jaws, and to the first specimen, by M. Louis Agassiz, of a regular system of piracy upon the literary productions of English naturalists. The Short Communications are intituled, Breeding of the Woodcock in England, Observations on the Iconographie des Insectes Coléoptères, and a new species of frog in yellow amber.

No. I. of Natural-History Illustrations, or supplementary plates to the Magazine of Natural History, contains four exquisitely-finished engravings. The first is a "living likeness" of William Smith, L.L.D., a portrait which ought to occupy a distinguished position in the library of every British geologist. For the second, you have a perfect figure of the magnificent Lamia boisduvalii, a new species from New Holland. The third plate represents the four species of Lima and two of the Limatula, in twenty-four figures; and, on the fourth, are exhibited the fossil remains of the Hybodus delabechei, with admirable exactness and beauty. The Natural-History Illustrations possess extraordinary merit as mere examples of Art; as graphical aids to the development of science, their importance and execution cannot be too highly appreciated.

No. xxx, JUNE.-With farther observations on the history and classification of the Marsupial quadrupeds of New Holland by Mr. Ogilby, this number opens with its valuable stores. Mr. Hogg follows with a prefatory review of the classifications of Amphibious animals adopted by modern naturalists, and the first portion of an arrangement which he himself has constructed and prefers. Observations on the Rodentia, by Mr. Waterhouse, are continued and illustrated with ten figures of skulls and jaws. Mr. Ogilby describes and figures the frontal spine of a new species of Hybodus found in wealden clay; and Mr. Woods addresses a letter to the editor respecting the supposed frontal spine of Hybodus in the Bath museum. Dr. Moore's catalogue of the Malacostracous Crustacea of South Devon, is a methodical, exact, and important contribution to the natural history of that district. In another section of his anatomy of the Lamellibranchiate Conchiferous animals, Mr. Garner enlarges minutely on their excretory system. A consorious epistle from "Philalethes" represents the Botanical Garden at Calcutta as having fallen into a state of lamentable degradation, and then Reviews of Hope's Coleopterist's Manual and of Halliday's Hymenoptera Britannica, bring you to the Short Communications, with the titles-Breeding of the Cross-bill in Gloucestershire and Surrey; carnivorous propensity of the Squirrel; and the distribution of the Marsupial animals.

The Naturalist; illustrative of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms; with portraits and memoirs of eminent naturalists, and engravings on wood; edited by Neville Wood, Esq.; royal 8vo, London, 1839.

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The Foreign Monthly Review and Continental Literary Journal; 8vo, London, 1839.

WHETHER the Foreign Monthly Review be appreciated by its intellectual or machanical execution, the Journal certainly possesses extraordinary merit: the subjects are selected with exemplary judgment, and the articles composed with singular elegance, remarkable ability, and a wise as well as just discrimination : we arrange their titles, in English, under the attention of our readers.

VOL. X., NO. XXVIII.

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No. I, MAY, 1839.

1. German Almanac of the Muses, for 1839.

2. Ramon de la Sagra; Elementary Education in Holland and Belgium 3. M. de Saint Hilaire; Private Life of Napoleon.

4. Dr. Julins; Society and Manners in the United States.

5. Literary Contemporaries at Weimar, Bottigen, and Weiland. 6. Dr. Förster; Court and Cabinet of Augustus II, king of Poland. 7. Dumas and Dawrats; A Fortnight's Visit to Mount Sinai.

8. Droz; Reign of Louis XVI, and the French Revolution.

9. Count M. Dumas; His Reminiscences, published by his son. 10. J. M. Lappenberg; History of England, volumes one and two. 11. French Encyclopedia for the Educated Classes; the original of Göethe's Faust.

12. F. T. Silvatici; Memoir on the Draining and Improvement of the Tuscan Marshes.

13. Franz Palacky; Literary Tour in Italy, in quest of Sources of Bohemian and Moravian history. 14. Dumont D'Urville; French Expedition towards the South Pole. 15. German Popular Publications; Solomon and Morolf, a most diverting history.

16. Roux de Rochelle; Pictorial His. tories the World-History and Description of all Nations United States of America. 17. Literary Intelligence-France, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Hungry, Wallachia, Turkey, and Russia..

18. Lists of New Foreign Publications, including upwards of three hundred articles, alphabetically arranged.

No. II, JUNE, 1839.

1. Count de Torreno; History of the Insurrection, War and Revolution in Spain.

2. Dr. E. Eichwald; Travels to the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus. 3. Almanac of the Muses; the Lyric

Poets of Germany; second article. 4. Thiollet and Roux; Collection of internal and external Architectural Decorations.

5. Dr. Hermann Ulrici; Shakspeare's Dramatic Art, and his relation to Calderon and Göethe.

6. Literary Contemporaries at Weimar; second article-Göethe. 7. Bignon; History of France under Napoleon, the second epoch; Russia in the East.

8. Dr. Huber; The English Universities, a preparatory work to the History of English Literature.

9: Daguerre's Discovery; the Photogenic or Heliographic Impressions. 10. Dr. Gustav Klemm; Manual of German Archæolegy.

11. G. Pierini; Filiberta Madruzzo, an historical tale.

12. Martin Doisy; Unpublished Manuscript of Louis XVIII, preceded by an Examination of his Political Life till the time of the Charter of 1814.

13. Ludwig Tieck; Collected Tales. 14. Dr. G. L. Kreigk; Report on

District of the Ouquis in Bolivia. 15. J. C. Kretschmer; Military Life in the field and the camp. 16. Nik. Josika; Hungarian Novels and Tales.

17. Literary Intelligence, from the Continent.

18. Lists of new Foreign Publications, in April and May.

Annals of Natural History; or Magazine of Zoology, Botany, and Geology ; conducted by Sir W. Jardine, Bart., P. J. Selby, Esq., Dr. Johnson, Sir W. J. Hooker, and Richard Taylor, F.L.S. 8vo. London, 1839, with Graphic Illustrations.

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The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science; conducted by Sir David Brewster, F.R.S., Richard Taylor, F.G.S., and Richard Phillips, F.R.S. 8vo, London, 1839.

No. XC., MAY, 1839.

1. Mr. Tovey; The Elliptical Polarization produced by Quartz. 2. Dr. G. Bird; Products obtained by the re-action of Nitric Acid on Alcohol.

3. Prof. Plateau; Theory of Visual Appearances arising from the contemplation of Coloured Objects. 4. Prof. Johnston; The Constitution of Resins.

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The October number of "THE ANALYST" will contain an Analytical Account of the "Annales des Sciences Naturelles," for the present

year.

BARLOW, PRINTER, BENNETT'S HILL, BIRMINGHAM.

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