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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



refei-ring to an article in Silliman's American Journal of Science (vol. 

 xliv. 1843, p. 405), where it is announced. 



"Ten thousand species of plants, and upwards of 50,000 specimens, 

 constitute the Herbarium of this Expedition. The following catalogue 

 gives the number of species collected at the several places visited : 



Madeira 300 Pejee Islands . 



CapeVerds 60 Coral Islands . 



Brazil .980 Sandwich Islands 



Eio Negro (Patagonia) 

 Tierra del Puego . , 



150 



Oregon 



220 CaUfornia 



Chili 442 ManiUa . 



Peru 820 Singapore 



Tahiti 288 Mindanao 



Samoa (Navigators' Islands) 457 Sooloo Islands 

 New South Wales . . . 

 New Zealand .... 

 Auckland Islands , . . 



787 



Mangsi Islands 



398 Cape of Good Hope 

 50 St. Helena. . . 



786 

 29 



883 

 1218 



619 



381 

 80 



102 

 58 

 80 



300 

 20 



Tongatabu . . . . .236 



9646 



" Including the Mosses, Lichens, and Seaweeds, the number will ex- 

 ceed 10,000. There are coloured drawings of 180 species of plants, 

 beautifully executed." 



Of the above list, however, be it observed, the Oregon and Califor- 

 nian species (estimated at 2107 species), will be incorporated with the 

 • North American Flora ' of Messrs Torrey and Gray, and excluded 

 from this work ; ^and of the remaining countries, it is only the Samoa, or 

 Navigators' Islands, the Feejee and Sandwich Islands (these especially), 

 and the Mindanao, Sooloo, and Mangsi Islands, that can be expected to 

 afford much of novelty : the vegetation of other places visited has been 

 pretty well exhausted by previous navigators. The several species of 

 those countries, and the known ones of all, are in this work merely 

 named, unless any new information is elicited by their examination ; 

 and the whole is systematically arranged as an entire Flora of the 

 voyage, not divided according to countries. Of the new genera and 

 new species, the characters are given in Latin, accompanied by further 

 descriptive and other remarks in English. Some idea of the relative 

 importance of the collections made in the Feejee and Sandwich Islands 

 may be conceived, from the fact that of the 100 plates to be devoted 



