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appeared. At present, we can only recommend it, in general 
terms, to the public; but we must revert to it more in detail in a 
future number of our Journal. The full list of subscribers is a 
convincing proof of the esteem in which Mr. Jenner and Mr. 
Ralfs were held before the appearance of this publication. 
Travels in CEYLON and Continental Innia, (with scientific 
Appendices) by Dg. W. Horrmeisrer, Travelling Physician to 
his Royat Highness, Prince Waldemar of Prussia. Translated 
from the German. Edinburgh. 1848. 
The untimely end of this promising naturalist is known to most 
of our readers. While present with his Royal master, as spectator 
at the battle of Ferozeshah, he was struck by a grape-shot which 
entered the temple. “He fell forward to the ground. The Prince 
instantly sprang from his horse and raised him; but the vital 
spark had already fled. The advance of the forces compelled the 
survivors to move on, leaving the slain on the field of battle; nor 
was it till after two days had elapsed, that the body was found 
and interred in the same tomb with several of his friends who fell 
on that bloody day. A simple monument is erected in the burying- 
ground, by Prince Waldemar, to the memory of his faithful phy- 
sician and beloved companion.” 
The volume consists of private letters, written for his own im- 
mediate circle of relatives and friends. Fragments of botanical 
and zoological information, which were scattered through his 
posthumous papers and could not well be introduced into the 
series of letters, have been appended separately. It is on account 
of the former of these, the botanical fragments, that we notice the 
work in this Journal. There is a great deal of interesting infor- 
mation relating to the more striking and useful vegetable produc- 
tions. One paper is on the vegetation of the Himalaya moun- 
tains, and another, addressed to Baron Humboldt, “on the geo- 
graphical distribution of the Conifer on the Himalayan range:” the 
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