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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Planta Javanicte Rariores, descripta iconibusque illustrate, quas 

 in Insula Java, annis 1802 — 1818, legit et investigavit Thomas 

 Horsfield, M.D., e siccis descriptions et characteres plurima- 

 rum elaboravit Joannes J. Bennett; observationes structuram 

 et affinitates prcesertim respicientes passim adjecit Robertus 

 Brown. Londini, apud H. Allen et socios. Part 2 and 3. 



We must refer (vol. ii. pp. 214, 294) to our notice of the first 

 number of this important work for some observations elicited 

 from us by our high respect for Dr. Horsfield, and by our sense 

 of gratitude to the Board of Directors of the East India Company 

 for the liberal spirit with which they have uniformly encouraged 

 the scientific and literary labours of the distinguished men who 

 have had the good fortune to serve under them in the East, and 

 who for the last half century especially have reflected so much 

 honour upon the service in which they have been employed. 



Among these eminent men no one stands more prominent for 

 profound attainments in natural science than Dr. Horsfield, and 

 it is deeply to be lamented that the little encouragement given by 

 the public to works like the present, profound and accurate in 

 research and beautifully illustrated, deprives us of the hope of 

 his indefatigable labours and vast collections being adequately 

 appreciated, except by those who consult the Museum of the East 

 India Company. 



The two parts of Dr. Horsfield' s work now before us would 

 have been noticed earlier, but from an expectation that we should 

 have had ere this the entire work. But the accuracy which di- 

 stinguishes all his publications has led to an inevitable delay in 

 the completion of the present one, and we can no longer hesitate 

 to lay before our readers a brief analysis of the portion which has 

 appeared since our first notice. 



We hailed the ' Plantse Javanicse Rariores ' as one of the most 

 important and interesting contributions made in this country to 

 the cause of botany, important from the precious observations 

 which it contained of Mr. Brown upon structure and affinities, 

 and interesting to ourselves from the evidence it afforded of the ta- 

 lents of Mr. Bennett, on whom the labour has principally devolved. 

 Attached as we are personally to that gentleman, not only for his 

 sterling qualities of character, and for the courtesy with which he 

 discharges his duties as Secretary of the Linnsean Society and 

 as Assistant in the Botanical Department of the British Museum, 

 but also as the inheritor of that high and affectionate respect 

 which we and a large circle of naturalists cherished towards his 

 lamented brother, we hailed Dr. Horsfield' s work with pride as 



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