44.6 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
illustrated by numerous magnified drawings and manuscript 
observations. 
There are, besides, several parcels of duplicate specimens, an 
unarranged collection of flowering plants and Ferns, and fine 
copies of Drummond’s Musci Americani, Funck’s Deutschlands 
Moose, Spruce’s Musci Pyrenaici and Hepaticee Pyrenaice, Drum- 
mond’s (Js.) Swan River Mosses, Me. Ivor’s British Hepaticæ, &c. 
The Library includes many valuable works, chiefly on Crypto- 
gamic Botany. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Works of the late Wit11am Grirrrru, Esq. F. L. S. &c. Pos- 
thumous Papers, bequeathed to the Hon. the East India Com- 
pany, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal; 
viz.— 
l. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan, 
and the neighbouring countries. Vol. I. 8vo. Calcutta, 1847. 
2. Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum. Parr I. Development of 
Organs of Phanerogamous Plants. 4to. Calcutta, 1847, Plates. 
3. Notulæ ad Plantas Asiaticas. Parr IL. Development of Or- 
gans of Phanerogamous Plants. 1 vol. Svo. 
The whole arranged by John M‘Lelland Esq., F. L. S., Surgeon, 
Bengal Service, 
It is well known to every reader of this Journal, that Mr. 
Griffith was one of the most promising Naturalists that ever 
visited our Indian territories. During his brief career in those 
regions, he was indefatigable in collecting, drawing, and deserib- 
ing; and his vast collections, drawings, descriptions, and journals 
were bequeathed to the Honourable the Directors of the East 
India Company, with a firm hope that this distinguished body, 
which had already rendered such services to science and in particu- 
lar io Botany by their liberal and judicious distribution of the 
vast collections formed by Dr. Wallich, Dr. Roxburgh, &c., and 
by the powerful assistance they gave towards the publication of 
