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travelers, possess extensive stores of information peculiarly 

 our own : and original descriptions of all these will enrich 

 the present work, in addition to translations and transcripts 

 of the characteristics of all the genera and species hitherto 

 published in other works. 



This second volume commences with the extensive second 

 subclass Calyciflorae, and describes thirty-nine natural orders 

 included in this subclass ; and the remainder belonging to it 

 will form the initial part of the third volume. The vast order 

 Leguminosae occupies 385 pages, and supplies descriptions of 

 a comparatively endless number of species of the pretty plants 

 of this really ornamental and very interesting natural order. 

 The orders ^4mygdaleae, J?osaceae, Pomaceae, Onagrariae, 

 .Lythrariae, Melastomaceae, and ikfyrtaceae, as part of the 

 thirty-nine, all and each of which contain plants so very 

 beautiful, fall into this second volume. 



Mennie, James, M.A., Professor of Zoology, King's College, 

 London : Alphabet of Botany for the Use of Beginners. 

 1832 [dated 1833]. Small 8vo, 123 pages, and many 

 cuts. London. 2s. 6d, 



Explains and illustrates the technical terms and elements 

 of botany, and may satisfy those whom a superficial know- 

 ledge of the science will content. Those who desire an inti- 

 mate and extended knowledge of it will find no book extant 

 so fit to lead the way to it as Lindley's Introduction to Botany* 

 noticed in our last Number. (Vol. V. p. 706.). 



Phillips, Sir Richard : An Essay on the Physico- Astrono- 

 mical Causes of the Geological Changes on the Earth's 

 Surface, and of the Terrestrial Temperature; with Notes. 

 Republished, with a Preface, by Wm. Devonshire Saull, 

 F.G.S. A.S. and R.A.S. (Geological Museum, Alders- 

 gate Street.) 8vo, 80 pages, 1832. Sherwood and Co. 



We hope to supply a notice of this essay in a future 

 Number. 



Art. II. Literary Notice. 



A POPULAR Introduction to the Study of Geology, by Mr. 

 G. Mantell, with numerous plates, is in the press, and will 

 shortly be published. 



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