286 Hooker's Journal of Botany, 



geography, meteorology, and zoology of the range of country 

 treated of. So limited and partial have been our knowledge 

 and means of knowledge of this range of country, that an 

 authentic and almost official book, in express contribution to 

 an extension of our information, must be welcome, must be 

 valued, must be taken into possession. 



Parts i. and ii. are published. Part i. contains 40 pages 

 of " Observations respecting the geographical description of 

 the Flora of Northern India," and 10 lithographs, which bear 

 coloured figures of the animal Lagomys alpinus Desm.y and 

 of 15 species of plants. Part ii. contains coloured figures of 

 19 species of plants ; a plate of geological sections; descriptive 

 and general notices of numerous Himalayan plants of the orders 

 /^anunculaceae, Dilleni«V^<^, Magnoh'^c^*^, Anondcece, Meni- 

 spermaceae, Berberidece, Podophylleae, iS/ymphaeaceae, Papa- 

 veraceae, JPumariaceae, and Cruciferae. In some general 

 observations prefixed to the descriptions, it is stated, that 

 " the great diversity of soil and climate to be found in 

 the British possessions in India is capable of supporting 

 almost all the natural productions of every region of the 

 globe. . . . Many, also, of the useful and ornamental produc- 

 tions of the hill provinces may, no doubt, be introduced into 

 England and the rest of Europe; the principal of these will 

 be pointed out." 



Hooker, W. J., LL.D., &c. : The Journal of Botany, being 

 a Second Series of the Botanical Miscellany. In quarterly 

 8vo parts, containing 9Q pages, and several plates, some 

 of them coloured. 7s, 6d. each part. 



The two parts published contain papers of equal interest 

 and merit with those which used to gratify us in the Botanical 

 Miscellany ; and we hope that the less price of the Jour7ial 

 will enlarge its sphere of service (for the kind of its service is 

 valuable) in the republic of botany. 



Ainsvuorth, William, M.R.S.L., Member of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society, &c. An Account of the Caves of Bal- 

 lybunian, in the County of Kerry, with some Mineralogical 

 Details. Svo, 96 pages, with several woodcuts. Dublin, 

 Curry and Co. 1834. 



To many English readers it may be necessary to state that 

 Ballybunian is so named from an old castle on the coast of the 

 county of Kerry, north of the junction of the river Cashin 

 with the embouchure of the Shannon. 



Our information respecting the geology and mineralogy of 

 Ireland has remained so defective, that we gladly hail any 

 endeavours to make us better acquainted with particular parts 



