The Eleventh Volume of the Naturalist's Library appears to us
one of the best numbers which have appeared in that very cheap and elegant serial. It commences the subject of Ruminating Animals, and deals with camels, dromedaries, and the higher species of deers and antelopes ; and both in the general view of the family and in the notices of the in- dirduals, Sir IVrwast JARDINE has judiciously relieved the mere scientific descriptions by incidents and anecdotes, in which the creature under consideration appears as a principal agent. He has also prefixed to the volume a brief notice of CAMPER'S life, and a very good abstract of his principal works ; and we gather from the preface, the agreeable fact that the sale of some of the volumes has exceeded 10,000 copies, and that the aggregate circulation up to this time is more than 60,000. The illustrative plates in this number are thirty-five, and a portrait of CAMPER to boot.
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