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son. On revising his father's papers for the press, he re- 
examined a considerable number of species, was enabled to 
correct some errors that had crept into the manuscript, and 
considerably to modify and improve the generic and sectional 
characters, chiefly by the introduction of those modifications in 
the estivation of the corolla, which had previously been little 
attended to or wholly neglected. The principles which have 
guided him have, we believe, been explained in a paper read 
at the scientific meeting at Milan, last autumn. Since we have 
not yet seen this memoir, and a considerable portion of 
the Boraginee remains yet to be published, we defer any 
further observations till the appearance of the tenth volume. 
In conclusion, we must congratulate Professor Alphonse 
de Candolle on his success in following his father's footsteps, 
and on the improvements, both scientific and practical, which 
he has introduced into this important work. Whatever we 
have said in praise or dispraise of particular portions of it, 
has been the result of impressions received during the hitherto 
partial use we have made of it. We have no doubt that had we 
had time and ability to follow the respective authors through 
the whole of their tedious labours, we should have found 
many more grounds for commendation, and might probably 
on the other hand, have seen reason for softening down the 
apparently severe remarks we have on some occasions 
thought ourselves compelled to make. 
LINDLEY’s Vegetable Kingdom. 
An important work may soon be expected from the pen 
and pencil of Dr. Lindley, which although nominally a third 
edition of that author's “ Natural System of Botany, or a 
systematic view of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and 
Geographical distribution of the whole Vegetable Kingdom,” 
wil be in reality a new work. It will form, we under- 
