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' " Decandolle has adopted Gray's order Ceratophylleae, and acknowledged 

 it as Gray's; Mr. Lindley has adopted the order Ceratophylleae, and given, 

 as an authority for it, Decandolle : as well might he have quoted from De- 

 candolle one of Robert Brown's orders, and given Decandolle as an au- 

 thority. — Z)." 



Hooker, W.J., L.L.D. F.R S. and L.S. &c. &c. and Regius Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Glasgow : Botanical Miscellany, intended to 

 comprise Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or little-known Plants, 

 from various Parts of the World, particularly of such as are useful in 

 Commerce, in the Arts, in Medicine, or in Domestic Economy. London, 

 No. I. 8vo, 24 pis. 10*. bds. 



A slight glance at this work enables us to say that the plates are beau- 

 tifully drawn and coloured; when No. II. appears we shall enter into 

 details. 



Hinton, John Howard, M.A. : Elements of Natural History, or an Intro- 

 duction to Systematic Zoology; chiefly according to the Classification 

 of Linnaeus, and aided by the Method of Artificial Memory. London. 

 4to, 5 plates. 



A very curious and clever work, in which an attempt is made to impress 

 the Linnean classes and orders of the animal kingdom on the memory, by 

 the application of the system of mnemonics of Feinagle (Jackson's we 

 think better). It is a praiseworthy attempt, and will be useful for children. 

 Johnston, George, M.D. ; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons ; Extra- 

 ordinary Member of the Royal Medical, and Corresponding Member of 

 the Medico-Chirurgical, Societies of Edinburgh ; and Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the Zoological Society of London : A Flora of Berwick upon 

 Tweed. Vol. I. Phaenogamous Plants. Edinburgh. 8vo. 

 The arrangement is that of Linnaeus, and the nomenclature that of Smith's 

 British Flora ; there are plants of each of the 23 classes of flowering plants, 

 and of 286 genera ; and the work, as far as we have had leisure to look into 

 it, is at once scientific and interesting from local remark. When the second 

 volume appears, we hope the author will throw the genera together in 

 tables, according to the natural system, and in other tables according to 

 their geological relations. 



France. 



Saigry et Raspail, MM., distinguished naturalists : Annales des Sciences 

 d'Observation, compr^nant I'Astronomie, la Physique, la Chimie, la Mi- 

 neralogie, la Geologie, la Physiologie et I'Anatomie des deux Regnes, la 

 Botanique, la Zoologie ; les Theories Math^matiques, et les principales 

 Applications de toutes ces Sciences a la M^teorologie, a I'Agriculture, 

 aux Arts et a la M^decine. Tome I. Paris, 1829. 



This is a new periodical of great promise. 



Art. III. Literary Notices. 



The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated, being 

 descriptions and figures in illustration of the natural history of the living 

 animals in the Society's collection, is announced to be published with the 

 authority of the Council, under the superintendence of the Secretary and 

 Vice-Secretary of the Society. The engravings will be executed on wood 

 by Branston and Wright, from drawings by Harvey. 



A Picturesque Guide through the Regent^s Park, with a description of 

 the Colosseum, the Zoological Gardens, engravings of the most curious 

 animals, &c. in a pocket volume, with a plan and thirty other engravings, 

 is announced. 



