A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes

by Major John Butler

Scientific Works Illustrated.

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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 Textures—the 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.

Works recently Published and in progress under this 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 following 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. Among the countries visited by the “Sulphur,” and which in the present state of science are invested with more particular interest, may be mentioned the Californias, Columbia River, the North-west coast of America, the Feejee Group (a portion of the Friendly Islands), New Zealand, New Ireland, New Guinea, China, and Madagascar. Published in Royal Quarto Parts, price 10s. each, with beautifully coloured Plates.

This Work is now Complete, and may be had in sewed Parts, price 5l., or in half-russia, or cloth binding, at a small addition to the price.—Parts I. and II. contain Mammalia, by J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S.—Parts III. and IV. Birds, by J. Gould, Esq., F.L.S.—Parts V., IX., and X. Fish, by J. Richardson, M.D., F.R.S.—Parts VI., VII., and VIII. Shells, by R. B. Hinds, Esq.

II.

THE BOTANY 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, during the years 1836–42. Edited and Superintended by Richard Brinsley Hinds, Esq., Surgeon, R.N., attached to the Expedition. The Botanical Descriptions by George Bentham, Esq.

This Work is now Complete, and may be had in six sewed Parts, price 3l., or in half-russia, or cloth binding, at a small addition to the price.

THE ONLY COMPLETE AND UNIFORM EDITION OF THE WORKS OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.

THE LIFE AND COLLECTED WORKS OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART.

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 10s. 6d. each, 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 Respiration of Nitrous Oxide and other Gases.

Vol. IV.—Elements of Chemical Philosophy.

With twelve Plates of Chemical Apparatus.

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.

Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, Miscellaneous Lectures, and Extracts from Lectures. With many Plates.

Vol. IX.—Salmonia, and Consolation in Travel.

⁂ This new and uniform edition of the Writings of Sir Humphry Davy embraces the whole of his Works during the space of thirty years (1799 to 1829), a period memorable in the History of Chemistry, and made so, in no small degree, by his own discoveries.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY BY CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWN.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE RECENT CONCHOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

With the Description and Localities of all the Species,—Marine, Land, and Fresh Water. Drawn and Coloured from Nature, by Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S., M.W.S., M.K.S., Member of the Manchester Geological Society. In one vol. royal 4to., illustrated with fifty-nine beautifully coloured Plates, price 63s. cloth.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

By Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. To be completed in about Thirty Numbers, each containing four Plates. Royal 4to., price 3s. coloured, and 2s. plain. Twenty-eight Numbers have appeared, and the work will soon be completed.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENERA OF BIRDS.

Embracing their Generic Characters, with Sketches of their Habits. By Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. Now publishing in Numbers, royal 4to., each containing four Plates, price 3s. coloured.

THE ELEMENTS OF FOSSIL CONCHOLOGY;

According to the Arrangement of Lamark; with the newly-established Genera of other Authors. By Captain Thomas Brown, F.L.S. With twelve Plates, fcap. 8vo., price 5s. cloth.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE SHELLS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND;

Embracing the Nomenclature of Lamarck, Gray, Turton, and Brown, for the purpose of effecting exchanges and naming collections. On a sheet, price 1s.