256 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Dr. Bromfield’s Flora of the Isle of Wight. 
It is well known among British botanists that the late lamented Dr. 
Bromfield had left a nearly complete MS. Flora of the Isle of Wight, 
together with a botanico-geographical map, prepared and engraved ex- 
pressly for this work, We are happy to be able to announce that these 
will soon be prepared for publication by Mr. Pamplin, and that Dr. 
Bell Salter has undertaken to make the needful alterations and addi- 
tions, and conduct the work through the press. 
Seaweed Collector's. Guide ; containing plain instructions for collecting 
and preserving, and a list of all the known species and localities in 
Great Britain; by J. Cocks, M.D., of Devonport. 
Mr. Van Voorst has announced a work with the above title, which, 
from the known character of the author, cannot fail to be useful to 
those who desire to preserve specimens of the most delicate and beau- 
tiful of Nature’s vegetable products of the British coasts. 
1. H. Fancoxzm, M.D., F.R.S., Superintendent of the Honourable 
Company's Botanical Gardens, Calcutta : Report on Teak Forests of 
the Tenasserim Provinces ; with other papers on the Teak forests of 
India. Royal 8vo. Calcutta, 1852. Maps and two botanical 
plates. 
2. A. Grssow, Superintendent, Botanical Gardens, Bombay: Report 
on Teak and other Plantations and Forests in the Bombay Presidency ; 
forming Vol. I. for 1852 of the Transactions of the Agri-Hortieul- 
tural Society of Bombay. 8vo. Bombay, 1852. 
Two works of the highest importance to those who feel an interest 
in the preservation of the Teak forests in India for the supply of naval 
timber, but which have been hitherto destroyed in the most reckless 
manner imaginable. No gentlemen could be more competent for the 
task here fulfilled, whether their scientific attainments or general know- 
- ledge be considered, than Drs. Falconer and Gibson. 
