276 Cooper's Flora Metropolitana. 



and the female of the black grous : and, described only, the 

 brown-headed gull. 



The histories of the species seem able. The subjects of 

 the vignettes are very interesting, and are various in kind. 



" The arrangement of the catalogue is nearly that of the 

 Baron Cuvier, published in the last edition of the liegne Animal. 

 Alterations, however, occur, in the arrangement of the fami- 

 lies, in the order Passeres, among the gulls, and in the order 

 Lamellirostres.' , The author has invented a few new names, 

 and is the first namer of White's thrush. 



Cooper, Daniel : Flora Metropolitana; or, Botanical Rambles 

 within Thirty Miles of London, Being the Results of 

 numerous Excursions made in 1833, 1834, and 1835; fur- 

 nishing a List of those Plants that have been found on the 

 different Heaths, Woods, Commons, Hills, &c, surround- 

 ing the Metropolis, more particularly the Counties of 

 Surrey and Kent ; chiefly from actual Observation, and 

 from the latest Authorities ; intended for the Student in 

 Practical Botany : with a List of the Land and Freshwater 

 Shells of the Environs of London. 12mo, 153 pages. 

 • London, S. Highley, Fleet Street, 1S36. 



A rich collection of local lists. The species in each are 

 grouped according to the natural system. In each order a 

 reference to the description of it in Liudley's Synopsis of the 

 British Flora is given. " Additions [of localities and of 

 species and localities] will, of course, be continually made to 

 all the lists ; which, if forwarded to the author, with the name 

 of the finder, will be most thankfully received, especially if 

 kindly accompanied with specimens." The work is likely to 

 much avail those who would attain to a knowledge of species 

 as conditioned in the circumstances of their life and growth. 



An index of the genera is supplied, and, by means of the 

 citation of pages under each genus, an index of the species 

 and their localities. Thus much is very well ; and, perhaps, 

 it is all that it was prudent to venture upon in a new kind of 

 work (new in kind as to its metropolitan quality), which 

 could only be expected to be desirable to botanists ; but, 

 should the measure of their purchase of it be such as to cause 

 the production of successive editions of it, it seems to one 

 that it would be a palpable improvement, that might then be 

 supplied, to add a natural-system list of all the species regis- 

 tered in all the local lists in the work, and to give under each 

 species a synopsis of all the localities in which, according 

 to the local lists in the work, the species had been found ; 

 and a reference to the mentions of species in the local lists. 



