52 Lindley's Key to Botany. 



In the Analyst, No. xiii., published in Oct. 1835, are three 

 treatises, which merit the attention of naturalists. The titles 

 of them, and the pages they occupy, are: — Remarks condu- 

 cive to the improvement of ornithological nomenclature, 

 p. 26. to 35. ; a retrospect of the literature of British orni- 

 thology, p. 78. to 99. ; on the study of Latin, more especially as 

 regards the interests of the medical profession. In the second, 

 the majority of the works, published from 1678 to Sept. 1835 

 are characterised. The Analyst is now published quarterly. 

 " Arrangements have been made by which the proceedings of 

 the learned bodies" in the populous and intellectual towns of 

 the midland counties "will be fully and accurately reported " 

 in it. " The transactions of the several institutions will be 

 thereby quickly disseminated, instead of being, as hitherto, 

 buried in the recesses of their lecture-rooms." 



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Mrs. Per rot? s Illustrations of Selected Species of British Birds. 



(VIII. p. 523, 524.) 



It has been objected to this work, in the Analyst, No. xii., 

 that it is without plan or order. The authoress regards as 

 exonerative of this charge, the following statement in her pub- 

 lished prospectus: — "As the work is published in numbers, 

 opportunity will be afforded for the insertion of any new 

 discovery ; and the arrangement being deferred to the conclu- 

 sion, allows a probability that a better form of classification 

 may be adopted, which may reconcile the conflicting opinions 

 of authors, establish more order in the system, and elucidate 

 the obscurity and confusion in which many of the genera are 



involved " 



l>ijjori8 9ini)k>y bin aoh 



Lindley, J., Ph. D. F.R.S. F.L.S. and G.S., Professor of 

 Botany in the University of London, and in the Royal 

 Institution of Great Britain : A Key to Structural, Physio- 

 logical, and Systematic Botany. 8vo. 1835. 4s. 6d. 



The most comprehensive work on these branches of botany 

 of any that has been yet published in Britain. Not any 

 person interested in botany should be without it. The mat- 

 ter on the structure and physiology of plants is an improved 

 edition of that in the author's Outline of the First Principles 

 of Botany ; the matter on the systematisation of plants, is an 

 improved edition in English, except the denominative terms, 

 of that in the author's Nixus Plantarum, published in Latin 

 in 1833. The Nixus is noticed in VI. 505, 506. 



Partington, C. F., Author of various Scientific Works, and 

 Editor of The British Cyclopaedia : Introduction to the 



