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fessor of Anatomy, and mentions his vivid recollection of the pleasant 

 and instructive hours passed in the hospitable residence of this gen- 

 tleman, — to Temminck, Director of the Rijks Museum of Natural 

 History, — and to the other Professors of the Medical Faculty at 

 Ley den. 



The author makes frequent references to the writings of naturalists 

 and comparative anatomists who have preceded him ; to Fischer, 

 Meckel, Burclach, W. Vrolik, Burmeister, Lattke, J. V. d. Hoeven, 

 Temminck, Duvernoy, Schroeder V. d. Kolk, and others, and evinces 

 that he has not come unprepared to his task. The elaborate dis- 

 section of the Moholi by Dr. A. Smith appears not to be known to 

 him. 



In conclusion, we may remark that we have read Dr. Hoekema 

 Kingma's dissertation with care, and can unhesitatingly announce it as 

 a valuable contribution to comparative anatomy, elaborated with much 

 pains and knowledge, creditable alike to the skill and attainments of 

 its author. In expressing a parting wish for his success, to what- 

 ever department of science he may devote himself, we may add, 

 that we are greatly mistaken if this be his last contribution to its 

 progress. 



Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 M.A., F.L.S. With 127 Illustrations on wood, drawn by the 

 author. London, Bailliere, 1857. 



Prior to the appearance of the present work, there was nothing in 

 the English language which could be recommended as a satisfactory 

 introduction to the study of the lower tribes of plants. No special 

 treatise since the translation of Sprengel's * Introduction^ to the study 

 of Cryptogamic Plants,' the last edition of which came out in 1819, 

 has to our knowledge been published in Great Britain. It was there- 

 fore high time that a summary introduction should be written by a 

 native botanist, embodying the very numerous additions which have 

 been made to our knowledge by various Cryptogamists at home and 

 abroad. Such an introduction now lies before us, upon which an 

 immense amount of care and trouble has been expended by the most 

 eminent of all our Cryptogamists. Mr. Berkeley has consulted 

 pamphlets, transactions, published collections of specimens, and 

 papers innumerable scattered in English and continental Annals and 

 Magazines, as well as most of the more important treatises on the 

 different branches of his large subject. Although we think we could 

 point out here and there works which he has passed over in silence, 

 which it would have been well to have mentioned, even if he was 

 unacquainted with them (for example, the works of Nylander and 

 Massalongo on Lichens are not so much as alluded to), yet certainly, 

 on the whole, a want of learning will not be laid to Mr. Berkeley's 

 account. But after all, the greater value of the book consists, not in 

 the useful land laborious epitome of other men's labours, but in the 

 care and accuracy with which his own observations are put together, 

 and accompanied with original figures. By far the greater part of 



