applied to Literature and to Science. 43 



scription on a mummy. It is, however, remarkable, that the 

 words are not used as synonyms, but as distinct appellations, 

 which may be inferred from the also of the inscription ; and 

 Ammonius is written distinctly in Mr. Grey's enchorial manu- 

 script, where we might have expected to find Petammon, if 

 Ammonius had been merely a translation. 



P. 162. " M. Champollion does not seem to have heard of 

 Mr. Bankes's copy of the Table of Abydos." On the con- 

 trary, Mr. C. distinctly states, that he had first heard of this 

 tablet from Dr. Young. The accuracy of Mr. Bankes's copy 

 is confirmed by that of Mr. Wilkinson, which is printed toge- 

 ther with it in the last fasciculus of the " Hieroglyphics :" a 

 work which contains a multitude of proofs of Mr. Wilkinson's 

 great industry and accuracy in preserving inscriptions so unac- 

 countably neglected in the great work of the French antiqua- 

 rians ; and which will contain a still greater multitude of his 

 communications as it proceeds. 



Mr. Champollion's words are these : — " Tableau pr^cieux, 

 dont une copie est depuis plusieurs ann^es dans les porte- 

 feuilles de M. W. Bankes, en Angleterre, Je dus le premier 

 avis de son existence a I'amitid de M. le Docteur Young." 

 Lettre premiere au Due de Blacas, p. 15. This passage has 

 also been overlooked by the learned author of a late article in 

 the Edinburgh Review. 



I am, Gentlemen, your very obedient servant, 



*i^ *i* *i* •!* 



Remarks upon the Orchideous Plants of Chile. By John 

 Lindley, Esq., F.L.S., <^c. ^c. 



Much as has been done in investigating the vegetable produc- 

 tions of South America, it must be confessed that we still are 

 far from possessing any very definite notions of the botany of 

 that vast continent. But if this be true of the South American 

 Flora in general, it is much more so with respect to the more 

 southern provinces, and especially with regard to Chile. The 

 number of plants recorded in scientific works, as natives of that 

 region, are so few compared with what from analogy it may be 



