304 Analyses of Books. [Oct. 



by which malted barley became chargeable with a duty of 

 2s. 7d., and malted bear and bigg of 2s. per bushel. 



The following table gives the quantity of spirit produced 

 from grain and malt, and the quantity of grain consumed, 

 from October 1833, to 1834. 



GRAIN. MALT. 



England - - . - 4,807,328 gals. 



Scotland 3,183,750 — 6,002,422 gals. 



Ireland 8,749,794 65,703 



Total grain spirits 16,740,872 6,068,125 gals. 



Total malt „ 6,068,125 



Total to 10th Oct. 1834. 22,808,997 gals. 



6,696,344 bushels of grain are consumed in the produc- 

 tion of spirits in the three kingdoms, and 2,427,248 bushels 

 of malt. 



Article VIII. 



ANALYSES OF BOOKS. 



The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 

 vol. xvii. part 2d, 1835. 



Thb contents of this portion of the Transactions are : 



11. A commentary on the fourth part of the Hortus Malabaricus. 

 By (the late) Francis Hamilton, M.D. &c. 



12. Memoir on the degree of selection exercised by plants^ with 

 regard to the earthy constituents presented to their absorbing surfaces. 

 By Charles Daubeny, M.D. &c. 



13. Review of the order of Hydrophylleae. By George Bentham, 

 Esq. &c. 



14. On Diopsis, a genus of Dypterous Insects, with descriptions of 

 twenty-one species. By J. O. Westwood^ Esq. &c. 



The fact that about two-thirds of the half volume now before us 

 are occupied with the fourth part of Dr. Hamilton's Commentary, 

 which, however valuable, has already obtained its full share of the 

 pages of the Linnean Transactions, must excite regret in those who 

 are desirous for the prosperity of this very respectable Society, that 

 its moderate funds should be thus drained, when a contribution from 

 the ample means which it is well known the author possessed, could 

 have so readily dispensed with this burden. 



The object of the commentary is to remove the discordances in the 

 nomenclature of Indian botany, particularly with regard to the adap- 



