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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



made by Dr. Reinwardt, between 1815 and 1822, on the islands of 

 Celebes, Ternate, Amboina, etc., should be still worthy of being made 

 public. We nowise doubt that the study by which we propose to pub- 

 lish the botanical researches of Dr. Reinwardt will bring to light a 

 great number of new plants, and contribute to give a better knowledge 

 of the geographical distribution of plants in a portion of the Indian 

 Archipelago yet so little known in its relation to the vegetable kingdom. 



Do 



" The notes, made on the spot by Dr. Reinwardt, are generally very 

 concise, but they may often guide us in our studies of his plants. We 

 shall everywhere make it a sacred duty to throw out his own views, so 

 that all the honour, all the merit, may return to him to whom they 

 rightly belong. 



" Particular circumstances induce us not to adopt a regular and syste- 

 matic order of families. At the end of the work will be appended a 

 register, to indicate the pages at which each family is to be found. 



"The publication will be in ten numbers, each containing eighty 

 pages of text, in Latin, accompanied by four lithographic plates ; price 

 8 florins of the Netherlands. 



" The work will appear so that three numbers shall be published in 

 current year, four more in 1857, and the rest in 1858. 



" I take the liberty to recommend this undertaking to all the friends 

 of science, and beg them to second it with their powerful support." 



<W. H. De Vkiese. 



Leyderiy September 



Mettenius, G.; Filices Lechlerian;e, Chilenses ac Peruana. Svo. 



Leipzig. Thirty pages; three folding Plates. 1856. 



Dr. Mettenius has, we believe, succeeded to the Chair of Botany 

 lately occupied by Professor Kunze at Leipzig, and he appears to devote 

 himself to the study of Ferns with the same ardour and success as his 

 able predecessor. The present is one of three works on Ferns of the 

 author, which has just reached our hands; it gives a list of 144 species 

 (including Pseudo-Filices). A few new species are described, and these 

 are accompanied by neatly executed and faithful figures. 



