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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Palin. Trees of the Amazon, and their Uses, by Alfred R. Wallace. 
This little work, now preparing for the press, will contain figures of 
forty-three species of Palms, with descriptions of their several pecu- 
liarities of growth, size, and colour, of the localities and soils which 
they prefer, and a full account of the various uses to which they are 
applied. An outline of the botanical characters, and of the geogra- 
phical distribution (illustrated by maps) of the whole family will also 
be given. The number of Palms is so great, they are of such import- 
ance to the inhabitants of the countries in which they grow, their forms 
are so elegant and varied, and so little is popularly known of them, 
that the author is induced to bring before the public his notes and 
sketches made during a four years’ residence in the richest Palm coun- 
try in the world, with the hope that they may prove interesting and 
useful. The drawings were all made from trees growing in their native 
forests, and the localities they inhabit, as well as the uses to which they 
are applied, were in every case determined by personal observation. 
The plates will be lithographed by Mr. Fitch, the botanical artist, and 
the characteristic features of every species will be carefully preserved. 
Arcuer, Tuomas C.: Popular Economic Botany, or description of the 
botanical and commercial characters of the principal articles of Vege- 
table origin, used for food, clothing, tanning, dyeing, building, medicine, —— 
perfumery, ete. Reeve and Co. 
A most useful and interesting book, with plates worthy of all praise; - 
but we must reserve a more particular notice for another occasion. _ 
Schlechtendahl’s ‘Linnea.’ 
We learn with much regret that this important German botanical 
periodical, of which twenty-five volumes have appeared, is likely to be — 
brought to a close with the twenty-fifth volume. . 
