Report of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 273 



Canaries. Ouvrage publie sous les auspices de M. Guizot, 

 Ministre de l'Instruction Publique. In fortnightly parts : 

 4to, as to the text and some plates ; folio, as to the atlas. 

 London, Hunneman, 9. Queen Street, Soho ; Paris, Be- 

 thune; Carlsruhe, Herder. 



This work is prospectively noticed in p. 112. Since the 

 date of the publication of that notice, four numbers have been 

 seen ; and it is pleasant to state, that these are of so scientific 

 and interesting a character, as to mark the work as one likely 

 to include stores of information of very high interest to the 

 naturalist. The four numbers cited relate to botany, under 

 divisions of it entitled, M Aspect General de la Vegetation dans 

 les lies Canaries," and "Distribution Phytostatique." This 

 last term seems about equivalent to soil, climate, and situation. 

 It is an obvious character of the matter presented, that the 

 facts and inferences stated are viewed in relation, whether 

 confirmative or combative, to the general conclusions received 

 in the science : this character much conduces to render local 

 subjects of general interest. 



Of plates there are ten. Five of them are 4to, and repre- 

 sent as many species of plants, with many figures of the dis- 

 sected parts of the flower and fruit. All the figures are beau- 

 tifully delineated, are printed from stone, and are not coloured. 

 The remaining five plates are those of the atlas, and are folio. 

 Three of them represent views of three regions in the Cana- 

 ries : the term for each of them is w Vue Phytostatique : " 

 it is a landscape scene, with the species of plants represented 

 in situ, and with their general botanical features. One of 

 the remaining plates is entitled " Facies," and exhibits the 1 

 species of plants that predominate in one region associated 

 within the plate, and in their general distinctive features. The 

 remaining plate is a double one, and represents u Profils Phy- 

 tostatiques de File de TenerifFe," on the points of the compass 

 n., s.e., and s.w. The profiles are graduated into measures 

 of elevation by parallel lines passing across them : and the 

 general kinds of the species of plants that occupy the profiles 

 are indicated by the profiles being covered with different 

 colours representative of them. The general kinds indicated 

 are i Plantes du littoral et des coteaux maritimes, plantes des 

 ravins, region des lauriers et des plantes forestieres, region 

 des bruyeres et des cistes, region des pins, region des legumi- 

 neuses frutescentes. The work is deemed cheap. 



The tioyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society : Third Annual Re- 

 port of the Society's Transactions. 8vo, 146 pages, and 

 Vol. IX. — No. 61. x 



