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Hook. (twenty species). 5. Saccoloma, J. Sm. (ten species). 
6. Odontoloma, J. Sm. (eight species). 7. Microlepia, Pr. 
(fifteen species). 8. Cuneate, Hook. (nineteen species) 9. 
Dareoidee, of which only one species is yet described. 
Musée Botanique de M. BENJAMIN DELESSERT, par 
A. LasEGUE. 
This is a work of no ordinary interest: comprising, as it 
does, * Notices sur les Collections des Plantes et la Biblio- 
thèque de M. Bensamin DzLEssERT; contenant en outre des 
documens sur les principaux Herbiers d? Europe et l'exposé des 
voyages entrepris dans Pintérét de la Botanique." Paris, 1845. 
It is well known that the distinguished individual, whose 
magnificent. Herbarium and Library are the principal theme 
of the volume now before us, has long held that place in the 
scientific, but especially in the botanical, world at Paris, 
Which was filled with so much credit to himself and with such 
immense service to mankind by the late Sir Joseph Banks, in 
London. His Museum is, in a similar manner, liberally opened 
to all whom it may interest or to whom it can be useful, and 
his own valuable book, the “ Icones Selecta,” of which 
four volumes, large 4to., have already appeared, (and a fifth 
is on the eve of publication) and the * Flore Senegambie 
Tentamen,” but, above all, the various works of MM. De 
Candolle, father and son, testify to the services this collection 
has rendered to the cause of Botany. Few persons, if any, could 
be equally competent with M. Laségue to execute the task 
in question; that gentleman having, for a long time, had the 
charge of M. Delessert’s Herbarium and collections: and he 
's already known to the scientific world, not only as so em- 
ployed, but as the author of a “ Memoir on the Life and 
Writings of M. Guillemin,” of which a translation appeared 
în the first volume of the present Journal, p. 411. | 
Of the motives that induced the publication of this volume 
M. Lasègue thus speaks : | roi 
" Our object was, in the first instance, to make known, by 
