112 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



nolulu. Sa tombe, qui etait confondue avec celles de kauats obscurs, 

 va-recevoir enfin une distinction meritee et trop longtemps attendue." 



Mr. VeitcJi, 



Few men have done more to serve the cause of botany and hor- 

 ticulture, by the quantity of new or rare and beautiful plants intro- 

 duced to our gardens and stoves and greenhouses, than Mr. Veitch, 

 of the Exotic Nurseries of Exeter and Chelsea; plants too from 

 various regions of the globe^ collected by travellers that he has sent 

 out at great expense, and through a long series of years, — chiefly 

 by two brothers, the Messrs. Lobb. The researches of one, William 

 Lobb, have extended, in the New World, from the extreme south in 

 Patagonia and Chili to the Oregon country in the north ; while those 

 of Thomas Lobb, in the Old World, have been over a' great part of the 

 Continent of India, from east to west, and north from Himalaya to the 

 Malay Islands, Java, Borneo, etc. We are glad to find that such ser- 

 vices on the part of Mr. Veitch have been appreciated at the late great 

 Exhibition at Paris, and that a silver medal has been awarded to him, 

 not as an exhibitor, but as a co-operator, in furthering the cause of 

 science; and no man could deserve it better. That his son in the 

 firm, Mr. James Veitch, jun. (the firm is James Veitch and Son), could 

 not be included in the award, is simply owing to his having been en- 

 gaged a less period of time in their extensive concerns. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Geographte Botanique Eaisonn^e, ou Uxposifion des Faits prin- 

 cipaux et des Lois eoncernant la Distribution Geop^aphique des Flantes 

 de Vepoque actiielle; parM. Alph. de Candolle. 2 vols. 8vo. Paris. 



+ 



{Continued from p, 88.) 



The 2fA Chapter is devoted to a series of discussions upon the native 

 countries of the majority of cultivated plants, and is full of curious 

 matter, the fruit of careful research. It is divided into two Sections, 

 whose titles appear paradoxical at first sight, being (1) species culti- 



