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although every care will be given to produce faithful and 

 sufficient figures, the extravagance of large plates, the colour- 

 ing of every leaf and petal, &c, will be avoided. \ 



Sowerby's small edition of the English Botany, whose plan 

 and scope were indicated in Vol. V. p. 707., progresses 

 steadily. The numbers, Is. each, are now published once a 

 fortnight. Twenty-four numbers are now extant. 



Of Baxter's Figures and Descriptions of one Species of every 

 genus of British Plants, in monthly numbers, each containing 

 4 species; price, with the plates coloured, Is., uncoloured, 6d.; 

 thirteen numbers have been published ; and a new and 

 improved edition of the earlier numbers commenced, in 

 which the descriptive matter is remarkably improved, and 

 augmented from one page to two. 



Alga? Damnonienses, or Dried Specimens of Marine Plants, 

 principally collected in Devonshire ; carefully named accord- 

 ing to Dr. Hooker's British Flora. The first volume is 

 now ready : it contains specimens of 50 species, prepared 

 and sold by Mary Wyatt, dealer in shells, Torquay. 



Mrs. Wyatt has succeeded, of late, in preparing these in a 

 more scientific manner than previously. A second volume 

 will be ready soon after Michaelmas, and will be sold to the 

 purchasers of the first volume at the price of that, to others, 

 at a fourth more. 



The Fossil Flora of Great Britain, by Dr. Lindley and 

 William Hutton, F.G.S. No. ix., price 5s. 6d., being the 

 first number of vol. ii., was to be published on July 1. 

 1833 : to be continued every three months. 



Illustrations of the Botany and other Branches of the Na- 

 tural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora 

 of Cashmere, are in preparation, by J. F. Royle, Esq., F.L.S., 

 &c, late Superintendent of the East India Company's Bo- 

 tanic Garden at Saharunpore. The plates, or prints, ac- 

 cording to the specimens which are distributed, will be 

 coloured lithographs of a quarto size. There is every pro- 

 spect of this work's being found rich in perfectly original 

 information ; and this character, and the fine lithographs of 

 the subjects described in it, are likely to render the work a 

 valuable addition to the literature of natural history. 



The Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France does not 

 seem to be so well known in this country as it deserves to be. 

 Its title sufficiently intimates that it is a register of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Geological Society of France; and of these, as 

 contained in the 10 parts published, forming two volumes 

 and the half of a third, which have been sent to us, we may 

 give some notice in an early number. We cannot tell if the 



