412 Bibliograjjhical Nolices. the same genus ; the only difference being that tlie recent fruit has the in-terior surface of the pericarp somewhat in a state of induration, which is not perceptible in that of any of the fossil species ; although it may have been so to a considerable extent in their original state, before fossilization, with-out our being able, at this period, to determine such to have been the case with any degree of certainty. And when we take into consideration the great variation in different species in the degree of thickness of the bony endocarp of the nearly allied genus Cocos, we can scarcely consider this single discrepancy sufficient to remove the fossil from the recent genus. I have therefore thought it advisable to reject M. Adolphe Brongniart's name of Pandanocarpmn, and to apply that of Nipadites, as more expressive of their true relation to their recent analogues." We may also remark, that several of the Cupressinites present a striking resemblance to the fruits of certain species of the Coniferous genus Callitris, principally confined to New Holland and Van Die-men's Land; and one, Cupressinites curtus (pi. x. fig. 20.), exhibits a close analogy with the fruits of Callitris quadrivalvis from Mount Atlas, being the only recent species in the Northern hemisphere. The author is entitled to great praise in undertaking the illustra-tion of one of the most difficult and important departments of fossil botany ; and we trust that he may be encouraged to continue his re-searches in a subject so replete with interest, and in the prosecution of which he has already displayed so much zeal and ability. British Entomology ; being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Ge-nera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland : containing coloured Figures from Nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the Plants upon which they are found. By John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., Hon. M.A.S. Oxf., Acad. Imp. Georg. Florent. Soc, Acad. Sc. Philad. Corresp. In 16 vols. Royal 8vo. In recording the completion of a beautiful and valuable work which is the fruit of sixteen years' unremitting labour, devoted to it by one who has combined accurate scientific research with consum-mate skill as an artist, and has at the same time borne for that long period all the anxiety, risk, confinement, and labour of regular pub-lication, it is impossible not to enter with cordial interest into the feelings of the author, in his retrospect of what he has endeavoured, with the most laudable perseverance, to accomplish for natural his-tory. Mr. Curtis reminds us in the Preface which accompanies the final Number, that his British Entomology was begun on New Year's day, 1824, and he felicitates himself in having been enabled to com-plete it in the time which he then anticipated. His original design
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