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the discoveries of those eminent Botanists, would not be tardy in - 
affording publicity to the collection. Nor was this a vain expecta- 
tion. We have now before us the first volume of the Journals, the 
first Part of the Icones, and the first Part of the Notule; all 
and each displaying the varied knowledge and untiring activity of | 
the Author. 
Mr. M'Lelland has been charged with the publication of all 
the MSS. and drawings at Calcutta; and we think he has done 
well in giving them to the world in the state in which Mr. Griffith 
left them. Doubtless, had the latter lived to publish them, they 
would have appeared under a very different aspect;—but it might 
have been difficult, even in Europe, to find an editor competent to 
carry out fully the author's views. The works must now be consi- 
dered as merely his private notes, the results of his own daily obser- 
vations and fac-similes of the contents of his portfolio:—all des- 
tined for his ownimmediate advancement in his favourite science, 
and from which, had Providence prolonged his life, he would have 
selected what he deemed fit for the information of the scientific 
world, 
It is as a physiological botanist that Mr. Griffith shone pre-em- 
inently; and he has given ample proof of his deep research into 
the anatomy and physiology of plants in the volume of plates 
above alluded to, and in the “Notule” which are explanatory of 
the plates and of his views of the organization, metamorphoses, 
&e., of vegetables. The first part alone of the Icones contains 62 
large quarto plates, crowded with more or less highly magnified 
figures and analyses of the parts of the flower, fruit, &c. These 
are executed in the same bold and rather rude, but faithful, man- 
ner, for which the elder Richard was distinguished, and which are 
here copied on stone, we presume by native artists. . 
When the work is completed, and we believe it will extend 
to many volumes, it will be seen that hardly any naturalist, 
though privileged to attain a much greater age, has done more 
to advance the cause of Systematic, and especially Physiolo- 
gical, Botany than Mr. Griffith. The public is greatly indebted to 
Mr. M‘Clelland, for the pains he has bestowed on the prepara- 
