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plored points, and it may prove of advantage to all travellers, 
whatever be the object of their researches. 
Count JAUBERT, 
Member of the Chamber of Deputies. 
The GEOGRAPHICAL DisrRiBUTION of British PLANTS 
by Hewerr Correrrtn Watson. Third edition. (For 
private distribution only.) 
Tue earlier editions of this work, together with other 
writings connected with the same subject, have long stamped 
their author as one well qualified for the task of publishing on 
the geographical distribution of the plants of our own 
country ; and he has in the present edition carried out his 
views on a more extensive scale; so extensive, indeed, that 
several volumes will be required to complete the present ob- 
ject ;—namely, “ that of bringing together, under a metho- 
dical form, those facts which are calculated to assist in showing — 
both the general range and local habitats of such plants as are 
reputed indigenous, or pretty well naturalized, in the island of a 
Great Britain, and its islets immediately adjacent, from Scilly —— 
to Shetland" — * A probability," Mr. Watson continues, 
* of the work running out to an extent so voluminous, and 
an unwillingness to give such a pledge for the completion of 
the whole, as ought always to be implied by the publication — 
of any portion of a work, have induced its author to print | 
the parts for private distribution only, and from time w 
time, as the materials may become ready. The copies are : 
= offered to those botanical friends who have assisted the 
author in his investigations concerning that department of 
botanical science to which the treatise relates.”—This, We - 
know, is not the first liberal act of the kind which Mr. Wat- 
son’s ardent love of science has led him to practise. Er 
The natural orders, considered in this volume, are the : 
three first, following the arrangement of De Candolle; 
namely, Ranunculacee, Nympheacee, Papaveracee. * 
