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nal; but I find no trace of explanatory notes upon various Indian 
names and terms, or chart or map of his solitary wanderings 
through regions previously laid down in no map. This latter is 
a serious deficiency. The Journals are rough, but full of ma- 
terials which would have formed a glorious book in the author’s 
own hands. This part is complete, in an 8vo. vol., of about 500 
pages, price 32s. The first Botanical part is purely physiological: 
it is a large 4to. vol., containing 62 coloured plates, crowded 
with figures and accompanied by an 8vo. vol. of descriptive mat- 
ter of 250 pages. The Mosses are all extremely well drawn, dis- 
sected, and described, with MS. names: they, together with the 
Hepatice, will constitute a second Part, of about 50 plates and 
about 100 pages of letter-press. The Grasses and Cyperacee are 
to form a third Part, the plates similarly in 4to., and the des- 
criptions 8vo.; while the remaining Phanerogame compose the 4th 
Part. This last consists of excellent delineations of new, curious, 
or beautiful plants, well drawn by Griffith's own hand, and some 
are well coloured too. 
“There is no MS. of Ferns: the specimens of this Tribe I under- 
stand were bequeathed to you. It seems to me that, now Mr. 
M ‘Clelland has performed the first and most difficult Botanical 
Part, and done it well (so far as accurately rendering the original 
drawings and notes), and thus ensured the gratis distribution of 
the book to 250 botanists, and also arranged that a fund should 
be raised for the deceased author’s child, it were a pity he 
should not carry the work to its conclusion. Nobody can read 
Griffith's handwriting with equal facility, or copy the notes with 
such care and patience. Mr. M‘Clelland is also busy arranging the 
collections for distribution, and lithographing with his own hand 
a Wallichian Catalogue, not only of the Numbers, Names and 
Stations, but of the botanical remarks and often detailed charac- 
ters attached to each species; and this will be distributed with 
the specimens.” 
