Excerpt from The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology; 1831, Vol. 4 IF this Fourth Volume of the Magazine of Natural History shall be found, as we believe it will, to contain a greater variety of articles than either of the three which have preceded it, our Subscribers are indebted to our Contributors, and we think will join with us in offering them sincere and hearty thanks. We have only to refer to the List of Contributors to show their number, and the rank in science of some of their names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.