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Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 31, 26 January 1843, Page 4

fThe Editor of the Times re{commends the following new worK to the notice of the nascent Auciiiard BjoK Society, being a leaf out of Y 3 unch . j STf )t political | ilihrary. . Contents of the volumes now published' ! THE SUP EP m N ATU B-4 L lIIS TORY I Of Birds/with memoirs and portraits of S—in—-on, S—p—d, and IV— x— *r. birds of the ‘Game’ /find ; with portraits and memoirs of iiS---n—y and G—m— e. Fishes of the ‘Perch* Genus; portrait and memoir of the celebrated Mr. Wide awaKe. Ruminating animals : portrait of IV. M t n, Esq. Ch. Ju. i Marsupial, or Pouched jlni- | mals ; portraits of G. C p r, | and f/is Excellency. ! New Zealand butterflies ; portraits and memo 1 ™ of R. A. F g d, and F 1 n M t w, |£sqrs. Completion of the fVorK: siderable progress has been ma/fing in the concluding volume of the series. The Vermin species; with por ! trait of the 'Ubiquitous /{at/ | and specimens of the Toady tribe in Messrs, iv h, C n 1, and K p e; but the subject is so vast that no definite time can be fixed for its publication, r t —’ The Thames 'Toe-nail » — Sir Marx' Isa in bard Brunei had the satisfaction of first walKing under the river Thames. Hi? tunnel is a great triumph o f art 'and perseverance; and wili re- 1 i main a splendid monument of , sKill to future age 9. Ot course our readers have heard of (lie im-

pression made by a French gentieman upon his English auditor* as to the immense size ot Sir lsambard, when he said to them,* ‘ Monsieur Brunei is great mangiant engineer—his great roxrnail (tunnel) goes all across de river Thames onder de vater from von side to de oderPfcwcusr