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NOTICES OF BOOKS, 



SuLLiVANT, William S. : Notices of some new Species of 'Mosses from 

 the Pacific Islands, in the Collection of the United States Exploring 

 Expedition under Captain Wilkes. {Extracted from the Proceedings 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ^ vol. ili.) 8vo. 1853. 



Cambridge, U.S.A. 



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Hookeriay Mniadelphus, Pilotrichum, Cryphcea, NecJcera, and Rhizo- 

 gonium; and these may be considered a continuation of the 'Notices of 

 new Mosses and Hepaticae from Tierra del Fuego and Oregon/ belong- 

 ing to the same collection, by the same able Muscologist, which were 

 mentioned in this Journal, vol. ii. for 1850. We could have wished 

 that some of the specific characters (twenty and more lines in length) 

 could have been shortened and confined to the obviously essential cha- 

 racters, if it is intended they should be practically useful; and more 

 full characters mierht then have followed the diaffnoses. 



EpistoUe Caroli a Linn^ ad Bernardum de Jussieu inedita, et mutua 

 Bernard! ad LinnEeum : curante Adriano de Jussieu, Academies Art. 

 et Scient. Americanse socio. 4to. Cambridgiae, Nov. Angl; 1854. 



We learn from the preface to these interesting letters, that they are 

 the Latin originals, of which the translation appeared in the 2nd vol. 

 of ' A Selection of the Correspondence of Linnaeus and other Natural- 

 ists, from the Original Manuscript, by Sir James Edward Smith,' pp. 

 206-227. The whole was committed for publication, in the Acts of 

 the Academy above quoted, to our valued friend Dr. Asa Gray, who 

 has appended the following note : 



manuscript 



corres 



Jussieu, the Editor requested that the proofs should be remitted to 

 Paris for his revision, in order that they might be coUated with the 

 original documents, so as to ensure the entire accuracy of the transcript. 

 The lamented death of our distinguished foreign associate, which oc- 



