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"We trust that the Old Bushman's book may send many a true naturalist, and

many a holiday maker too, to the country that his book so well describes."-Reader.

"As a book for general reading, 'A Spring and Summer in Lapland' will be
found one of the pleasantest of the season. It is, however, as an Ornithologist that
he will be most appreciated by scientific men, and his chapters on these subjects are
filled with original observations that evince an earnest desire for truth as well as
unusual aptitude for this species of research."-Intellectual Observer.

"The description of his being lost for nine hours at night in a snow storm is
distressingly vivid; we doubt whether Defoe or George Eliot ever wrote anything
finer in point of physical and pyschological description. There is an agonizing
simplicity, a depth, force and truth of detail which could hardly be surpassed, be-
cause every touch is in the nature of the thing."-Spectator.

"The book will we doubt not be much read. The chapters on Natural History

render a very full account of the living things of the country. The author is evidently

a keen sportsman, and gives us enthusiastic accounts of the shooting and fishing in

Wermland."-Morning Star.

"A volume which will be acceptable to the ornithologist and the sportsman."

Observer

"His notes abound in information.”—Sun.

"It was a good thought that took the Old Bushman on a hunting and naturalist's

mission to Lapland. His volume, telling of the natural features of this district, and

of the many animals that are almost its only inhabitants, is more full of new and

solid matter than the majority of travel books, and therefore has greater claims on

the attention of men of science."-Examiner.

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HE FLORA OF SURREY, or a Catalogue of the Flowering
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illustrated with two large Maps; one Coloured Geologically, showing the various
Strata; and the other, the County divided into Botanical districts, for the purpose
of more readily ascertaining the localities of the Plants. Compiled for the Holmesdale
Natural History Club, Reigate, by JAMES ALEXANDER BREWER, chiefly from
the Manuscripts of the late J. D. SALMON, F.L.S., and from other sources.

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AITZ'S INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY.
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J. FREDERICK COLLINGWOOD, F.R.S.L., F.G.S., F.A.S.L., Honorary Secretary of
the Anthropological Society of London.

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The plates contain designs of many remarkable hitherto unknown genera and

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I.-DAVY'S PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES.

PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. By John Davy, M.D., F.R.S., London and Edinburgh, Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, etc. London: Williams and Norgate. 1863.

THE publication by the veteran observer and experimental physiologist, Dr. John Davy, of a new volume of "Physiological Researches," demands something more at our hands than a mere notification. This work, like the two volumes, bearing nearly the same title, which preceded it 1838, is mostly composed of papers published in scientific journals, and in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal and other Societies. The author has done well in collecting from these quarters the numerous papers included in the volume, for by this course he has put within the easy reach of writers on and workers at Physiology a mass of information on many subjects, much of which might not have been otherwise easily attainable.

The esteem in which the observations of Dr. Davy are held, both in this country and abroad, may be judged of by casting the eye down the index of any of the larger systematic treatises on Physiology, when his name will be seen frequently referred to, especially in connection with the blood, animal heat, and animal electricity. Much, perhaps, of the love of, and skill in, carrying out experimental inquiries, which he has displayed, may be ascribed to the special scientific training which he received early in life, under the superintendence of his brother, Sir Humphry Davy-England's greatest experimental Chemist. But we are particularly bound to commend the zeal and energy, which have marked his career, in carrying out a series of researches, some of which were of a complicated description, under many disadvantages. The frequent changes of residence, necessitated by his army medical appointments, and the consequent

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