126 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Mr. Plant is encouraged to undertake this exploration with the 
earnest and devoted spirit of a true naturalist, believing that sufficient 
support will be afforded him in the profitable sale of his collections, 
when consigned to his agent (Mr. Stevens) in London, to enable him to 
defray the great expenses attending the labours of a naturalist abroad ; 
he, therefore, respectfully solicits every promise of support in this 
respect, and will feel greatly obliged for any orders and communica- 
tions which naturalists and collectors will favour him with, relative to 
the specific objects to which they would direct his attention during this 
journey.—Letters may be addressed to Mr. N. Plant, Museum, 
Leicester ; Mr. John Plant, Royal Museum, Salford ; and Mr. Samuel 
Stevens, Natural History Agent, 24, Bloomsbury Street, London. 
We understand Mr. Plant intends to embark in April or early in 
May of the present year. 
"NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief.. (Dutch Botanical Archives.) 
Uitgegeven door W. H. DE VRIESE, F. Dozy, en J. H. MoLkEN- 
BOER. Leyden. 
This is a periodical work, of which two volumes, each of four parts, 
or stout numbers, have appeared. It is gratifying to find so many of 
our botanical neighbours in Holland zealously devoting themselves at 
this time to the publication of the vast treasures they possess from 
their oriental possessions in the Malay Archipelago. The works of 
. Blume, Korthals, Miquel, and De Vriese, are among the most im- 
. portant. The latter, united with Messrs. E. Dozy and J. H. Molken- 
boer, gentlemen “especially devoted to the study of the Mosses, have 
established a journal under the above title, to which we cannot but 
wish every success. We only now call attention to the publication, as 
containing a great deal on the subject of the vegetation of the Dutch 
. East Indian possessions and other countries, reserving further notice 
for another opportunity. . TE 
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