SMITH, ELDER AND CO., CORNHILL. Scientific Works Illustrated. 13 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF H. M. GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE HON. THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. FAUNA ANTIQUA SIVALENSIS, THE FOSSIL ZOOLOGY OF THE SEWALIK HILLS, in the North of India. By HUGH FALCONER, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and of the Royal Asiatic Society of the Bengal Medical Service, and late Superintendent of the H. E. I. C. Botanic Garden at Saharunpoor: and PROBY T. CAUTLEY, F.G.S., Major in the Bengal Artillery, Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, &c. Edited by HUGH FALCONER. Plan of Publication.—The work will appear in about Twelve Parts, to be published at intervals of four months; each Part containing from Twelve to Fifteen folio Plates. The descriptive Letterpress will be printed in royal octavo. Price of each Part, one Guinea.. Part I. contains PROBOSCIDEA.-Parts II. and III., containing the continuation of PROBOSCIDEA, will be published shortly. Prospectuses of the Work may be obtained of the Publishers. "A work of immense labour and research. Nothing has ever appeared in lithography in this country at all comparable to these plates; and as regards the representations of minute osseous texture, by Mr. Ford, they are perhaps the most perfect that have yet been produced in any country. The work has commenced with the Elephant group, in which the authors say is most signally displayed the numerical richness of forms which characterises the Fossil Fauna of India;' and the first chapter relates to the Proboscidea-Elephant and Mastodon. The authors have not restricted themselves to a description of the Sewalik Fossil forms, but they propose to trace the affinities, and institute an arrangement of all the well-determined species in the family. They give a brief historical sketch of the leading opinions which have been entertained by palæontologists respecting the relations of the Mastodon and Elephant to each other, and of the successive steps in the discovery of new forms which have led to the modifications of these opinions. They state that the results to which they themselves have been conducted, lead them to differ on certain points from the opinions most commonly entertained at the present day, respecting the fossil species of Elephant and Mastodon."Address of the President of the Geological Society of London, 20th Feb. 1846. RESEARCHES, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ANATOMICAL. By JOHN DAVY, M.D., F.R.SS., L. & E., &c. The principal subjects treated of are-Animal Electricity-Animal Heat-the Temperature of different Animals-Pneumothorax in connexion with the Absorption of Gases by Serous and Mucous Membranes-the properties of the Blood in Health and disease-the Properties of different Animal Texturesthe Putrefactive Process-the Preservation of Anatomical Preparations -the Effects of the Poison of certain Serpents-the Structure of the Heart of Batrachian Animals, &c. &c. In 2 vols. 8vo., price 30s. bound in cloth, illustrated by numerous Engravings. "The subjects treated by the author are extremely numerous and interesting; several new facts in the physiology of animals are brought forward, and some curious and instructive experiments are explained and illustrated with remarkable felicity.”—Monthly Chronicle. "This work is written with a clearness and simplicity which renders its scientific details readily comprehensible."-Herald. 14 WORKS PUBLISHED BY! WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED AND IN PROGRESS UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. ** In order to secure to science the full advantage of Discoveries in Natural History, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to make a liberal grant of money towards defraying part of the expenses of the fol lowing important publications. They have, in consequence, been undertaken on a scale worthy of the high patronage thus received, and are offered to the public at a much lower price than would otherwise have been possible. I. THE ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. SULPHUR, Under the Command of Captain SIR EDWARD BELCHER, R.N., C.B., F.R.G.S., &c. Edited and Superintended by RICHARD BRINSLEY HINDS, Esq., Surgeon R.N., attached to the Expedition.-The extensive and protracted voyage of Her Majesty's Ship "Sulphur," having been productive of many new and valuable additions to Natural History, a number of which are of considerable scientific interest, it has been determined to publish them in a collected form, with illustrations of such as are hitherto new or unfigured. The collection has been assembled from a variety of countries, embraced within the limits of a voyage prosecuted along the shores of North and South America, among the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and in the circumnavigation of the globe. In many of these, no doubt, the industry and research of previous navigators may have left no very prominent objects unobserved, yet in others there will for some time remain abundant scope for the Naturalist. 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Foreign Associate of the Institute of France, &c. Edited by his Brother, JOHN DAVY, M.D., F.R.S. Now complete in 9 vols. post 8vo., price 108. 6d. cach, in cloth binding. Each volume is complete in itself, and is sold separately. CONTENTS: Vol. I.-The Life of Sir H. Davy, with a Portrait. "This biography is admirably written-correct details, full of instruction, and amusing throughout."-London Review. Vol. II.-The Whole of Sir H. Davy's Early Miscellaneous Papers, From 1799 to 1805; with an INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, and Outlines of LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY delivered in 1802 and 1804. Vol. III.-Researches on Nitrous Oxide, And the COMBINATION of OXYGEN and AZOTE; and on the RESPI- Vol. IV. Elements of Chemical Philosophy. Vols. V. & VI.-Bakerian Lectures. And other Papers in PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, and JOURNAL of the ROYAL INSTITUTION. With numerous engravings. Vols. VII. & VIII.-Elements of Agricultural Chemistry. 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