52 Bursess's Eidodendroii. 



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Anon. (A Lady, an instructress in the study of Conchology, and who may 

 be heard of at Messrs. Harvey and Darton's, Gracechurch Street) : Rudi- 

 ments of Concholoiiy ; designed as a familiar Introduction to the Science, 

 for the use of Young Persons ; with Plates, and References to the Col- 

 lection of Shells in the British Museum. London. 12mo. 3s. 6d. plain. 



A useful little work, which was very much wanted, 



A Lady: Caroline and her Mother; or Familiar Conversations for Childreq 

 on Entomological Subjects. l2mo. 4s. 6d. 



BOTANY. 



The Bota7iical Periodicals. — Curtis's Botanical Magazine, No. XXVL — 

 Edwards's Botanical Register, No. XIL, completing Vol. XIV. — Botanical 

 Cabinet, No. CXLIL— The Botanic Garden, No. L.— The British Flower- 

 Garden, No. LXXIL — Geraniaceae, No. VIII. of second series. — Cistineae, 

 No. XXII. — Medical Botany, No. XXVL — Flora M<^dica, No. XVL 

 {Mag. Nat. Histy vol. i. p. 58.) 



In the Botanical Register and the British Flower- Garden, the names are 

 accented, and the derivations given,* agreeably to our recommendation 

 (Vol. I. p. 59.). In the Botanic Garden this was done from the beginning. 

 We therefore recommend these three works ; the first to the lovers of rare 

 and new plants from all countries ; the second to the lovers of new and 

 beautiful hardy herbaceous plants and shrubs ; and the third to beginners 

 in botany, and those who cannot afford expensive works. Every number 

 of the Botanic Garden contains coloured figures, descriptions, and his- 

 torical and scientific notices of four handsome hardy garden plants, and 

 costs only a shilling. The author deserves the highest praise for thus 

 bringing an elegant and scientific botanical work within the reach of families 

 in moderate circumstances. 



Burgess, Henry, Esq. : Eidodendron, or Views of the General Character 

 of Trees, foreign and indigenous, connected with Picturesque Scenery. 

 London. Lithog. pis., in folio Numbers. 



Twelve plates are published, containing the beech, oak, whitethorn, 

 alder, spruce fir, Scotch pine, ash, birch, Lombardy poplar, a pollard willow, 

 elm, deciduous cypress, cedar of Lebanon, lime, and larch. As they are all 

 drawings from nature, their faithfulness can only be estimated by com- 

 parison ; and, in this respect, they can have no great public value. Their 

 merit rests on very different ground, viz. how far they are cognizable as 

 expressive types of the respective kinds they are intended to represent. On 

 this point it may be affirmed that Mr. Burgess has been fortunate in his 

 figures of the beech, oak, Scotch pine, birch, deciduous cypress, cedar, and 

 larch : but, in the instances of the whitethorn, lime, and the pollard willow, 

 his choice has been less happy ; because neither of these, however truly 

 drawn, give the general character of the kinds. 



Mutilated individuals should not have had a place in such a work : the 

 general character only should have been the aim ; all accidental circum- 

 stances should have been disregarded. Such can be no further useful than 

 as copies to be introduced into other compositions. 



The author's purpose is commendable ; it will bring the character of 

 trees more into the notice of junior artists, to whom the work will give good 

 examples for imitation, and a useful direction to their ideas in this branch 

 of their profession ; especially as We are informed the future numbers will, 

 in all respects, be improved. — J. M, Chelsea, 



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