so angular a form as to be nearly doubled under each other. Yet between these and the former, and but little above the surface, there are other circular arches, which, instead of being deposited in the same manner as the others, have their diameter horizontal. Farther up, among the recesses of the hills, there are fragments of exotic masses, which have been brought together from various places, and piled one over the other in most admired disorder." As far, too, as the eye can trace and the rocks are bare, the higher strata, as they recede in perspective, appear to be laid in every irregular position, some depressed, and others elevated, as if various powers had been brought to bear upon them from above and below. The most natural conclusion is, that there are, probably, large reservoirs of water on the mountains above, which, at some early period, whether by an extraordinary accumulation, or by the recession of the subjacent rocks, were precipitated in a flood to the valley, bearing with them the huge masses which lie about in so many rude fragments. But this could not have caused the contortions in the strata which are so remarkable. The natural colour of the limestone is a deep indigo, but from meteoric causes the surface has assumed a yellowish and brownish tint, while fragments are strewed about, which have passed through the fire of a kiln at the foot of the fall, of a light gravelly red. At this spot, there is a surprising echo, which is shown off" by the discharge of a small cannon; for the employment of which, the traveller is charged a fee which would not be unworthy of the guides who minister in the Devil's Cave, at Castleton, in the Peak. The diagrams here given in illustration are not drawn with a view to proportion; my only object has been illustration. -W. B. Clarke. [A POSTSCRIPT to Mr. Clarke's Communication, ending in p. 630. The appearing of Meteors in November, in different Years. (p. 386, 387.) An Instance for 1834.]- On the return [in 1834] of the period when the meteors, of which I have said so much, were seen in 1799, 1832, and 1833, I felt naturally anxious to watch the atmosphere. My health, however, did not allow me to remain up all night; but on rising, at three o'clock in the morning of Nov. 13., I saw from my window, in fifteen minutes' time by the watch, fifteen falling stars, in the direction of a line from Leo to the star Miza in Ursa major. The night was cloudless, and the moon so bright, that the constellations could be scarcely seen; but the meteors were very red and brilliant. The wind blew briskly from E.N.E., and freshened after every meteor. The coincidence between these and those before seen in America and Europe (p. 289. 385. 611.) on this day of the month is curious; but those which I now mention were decidedly electrical, and of no uncommon character. One meteor fell to the south of Ursa major, and appeared to pass between Cor Caroli and Arcturus. There were no trains. Should any correspondent of the Magazine have made any farther observations, I shall be obliged for the statement of them. W. B. Clarke. REVIEWS. ART. I. Titles of Works on Subjects of Natural History, published recently. LORD, Perceval B., M.B., M.R.C.S. of the Bombay Medical Establishment: Popular Physiology; being a Familiar Explanation of the most interesting Facts connected with the Nature and Functions of Animals, and particularly of Man. Adapted for general readers. Small 8vo, 500 pages, and several woodcuts. 1834. 7s. 6d. Lea, Isaac, Member of the American Philosophical Society, &c.: Observations on the Genus Unio, together with Descriptions of New Genera and Species in the Families Naiades, Conchæ, Colimacea, Lymnæana, Melaniana, and Peristomiana; consisting of Four Memoirs read before the American Philosophical Society, from 1827 to 1834, and originally published in their Transactions. 4to, 232 pages, with [numerous] coloured plates. Philadelphia, 1834. Various Contributors: The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. Vol. I. Part I. 8vo, 100 pages; 7 copperplates filled with engravings of insects, some of them coloured. London, 1834. 7s. 6d. Bagster, Samuel, Jun.: The Management of Bees; with a Description of the "Ladies' Safety Hive." With Forty illustrative Wood Engravings, and a Frontispiece exhibiting the Queen Bee, Worker Bee, and Drone Bee, of the natural size and colour, and magnified. Small 8vo, 244 pages. London, 1834. 6s. 6d. Purchas, Samuel, A.M., and Bagster, Samuel, Jun.: Spiritual Honey from Natural Hives; or, Meditations and Öbserv ations on the Natural History and Habits of Bees. First introduced to public notice in 1657, by Samuel Purchas, A.M.; now modified and republished by Samuel Bagster, junior. Small 8vo, 176 pages. London, 1834. 3s. Phillips, Professor: A Guide to Geology. 5s. Higgins, W. M., F.G.S., Lecturer on Natural Philosophy at Guy's Hospital, Author of "The Mineral and Mosaical Geologies," &c.: Alphabet of Electricity, for the Use of Beginners. 12mo, 116 pages, and 47 engravings on wood. London, 1834. 2s. 6d. ART. II. Literary Notices. THE Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, on the contributions to science made at the late meeting at Edinburgh, is to be put to press immediately. A Volume on Comparative Anatomy, by Dr. Grant, is to be published early in 1835, by M. Baillière: in 8vo, with numerous wood engravings. Swainson's Zoological Illustrations, Second Serics. requested to state that not any single numbers of this work can be had after January 1. 1835. Of the Zoological Journal, part xx. (the 4th of vol. v.) is very nearly ready. This part will contain several plates; and there will be published, at the same time, a part consisting of supplementary plates. Of Gould's Birds of Europe, part x. is published, and it is a most interesting one: the figures of the penduline tit, the marsh sandpiper, the kite, and the little bittern, are especially commendable. The Natural History of Dogs is the subject of the next volume of the Naturalist's Library, by Sir William Jardine: the volume is nearly ready. The Deer and Antelopes are to be the subjects of the successive volume. Of Thompson's Zoological Researches a fifth Memoir has been just published; its subject is: "Developement of Artemis salinus, or brine shrimp, demonstrative of its relationship to Branchipus and the other Crustaceous Phyllopoda, and to those enigmatical fossils the eyeless Trilobites; with a new species of Artemis and of Apus. With six plates." In No. iv. of the Analyst, November, is an entertaining article on the nidification of the wren, and another on the plumage, nest, and eggs of the long-tailed titmouse. 657 INDEX TO BOOKS NOTICED AND REVIEWED. THE GENERAL SUBJECT. Analyst, the, noticed, 479. 656. British Association's Third Report, announced, Bushnan's Introduction to the Study of Nature, Finch's Travels in the United States of America Jesse's Gleanings in Natural History, Second Macgillivray's Memoirs of the Lives of cele. Partington's British Cyclopædia, not., 382. 605. Teacher's, a, First Lessons on Natural Religion, GENERAL ZOOLOGY. Bonaparte's Iconografia della Fauna Italica, Bushnan's History of a Case in which Animals Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, Henderson's Trans- Grant's Comparative Anatomy, announced, 656. Jardine's Felinæ, announced, 196; Dogs, 656; King's Introduction to the Study of the Science Lord's Popular Physiology, announced, 655. Swainson's Zoological Illustrations, Second Se. Thompson's Zoological Researches, Memoir 5., Walker's Treatise on the Nervous System, Zoological Journal, Part xx., announced, 656. ICHTHYOLOGY. Wilson's and Duncan's Ichthyology, ann. 96. Lea's Observations on the Genus Unio, &c. Swainson's Exotic Conchology, noticed, 86. ENTOMOLOGY. Bagster's Management of Bees, announced, 655. Doncaster Agricultural Association's Report Newman's Grammar of Entomology, ann. 480. Westwood's Popular Introduction to the Mo- BOTANY. Babington's Flora Bathonensis, noticed, 191. Hooker's Journal of Botany, noticed, 286. 480. Lindley's Ladies' Botany, noticed, 383. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, announced, 192. Wight and Arnott's Prodromus of the Cha- Wyatt's Dried Marine Plants of Devonshire, noticed, 95. GEOLOGY. Ainsworth's Account of the Caves of Bally- Hawkins's Memoir on the Ichthyosauri and Nicol's Observations on the Structure of Recent U U 658 GENERAL INDEX. A CARI CARI are, in the West Indies, sometimes Achlýsia Audouin deemed identical with Lim- 'ga monophthalma Johnston, figures, and a Egèria, remarks on the characteristics and Alcyonia, the compound, an incidental noti- Alyssum maritimum Lam. disseminated by Amphibious animals, zoological recollections Animals notices of instances of extraordinary Annulate animals, essays in explanation of Anòlis, see Lizards. Ants, various facts on the habits of various Apiocrinites, see Crinoidea, Aplídium fallax Johnston and A. nutans John- Ardèidæ, Mr. Jenyns's views on the systematic A'rgulus foliaceus Jurine, fils, a note on, 600. Ascídia? gémina, a figure and a description of, Aspérula arvensis L. not a British plant, 272. 590. Audubon, Mr., and his work, the Biography of 171; a notice by Mr. Bachman of some of Aurora borealis, particulars and observations Badger, zoological recollections on the, 405. Birds: facts and arguments in relation to two |