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taken the editing of a work on the new, or rare and little known species of 

 the family, under the title of " Icones Filieum, ad eas potissimum species 

 illustrandas destinatcc, qua? hactenus, vel in Herbariis delituerunt prorms 

 incognita*, vel saltern nondum per icones botanicis innotuerunt ; Auctoribus 

 Gulielrao Jackson Hooker, LL.D. Botanices in Academia Glasguensi Pro- 

 fessore Regio, et Regiae, Antiquarise, et Linnaeanae Societatum Londini 

 Sodali, et Roberto Kaye Greville, LL.D. Regjse Societatis et Antiquarian 

 Edinae Sodali." 



The herbaria of the authors are enriched by the contributions of their 

 correspondents in various parts of the world, and they have received the 

 promise of still farther assistance from their friends, both at home and 

 abroad. 



The work will be concluded in twelve parts, each consisting of twenty 

 plates, accompanied with as many leaves of description, to appear quarter- 

 ly. The descriptions will be written entirely in Latin, and a few remarks 

 * added in English ; and the plates will be executed with the greatest at- 

 tention to accuracy, and in the best style of the art, especially in the dis- 

 sections of the fructification, from drawings made by the authors. The 

 engravings which adorn Humboldt and Bonpland's Nova Genera, and De 

 Lessert's Icones, may be considered as the models for those which will 

 illustrate the present work. 



The price of the work will be twenty-five shillings each part. A few 

 copies will be coloured in a superior style, price two guineas each. 



The work will be published in London by Messrs Truttel and Wurtz, 

 30, Soho Square ; and Rue de Bourbon, Paris ; and Rue des Saruriers, 

 Strasburg. 



17. Hooker and Taylors Muscologia Britannica. — The second edition 

 of this work is just ready for publication, and will contain, besides many 

 new mosses and six supplementary tables and many additions and correc- 

 tions, generic and specific characters of all the British Hepaticai, with re- 

 ferences to the figures in English Botany, and in the Monograph of the 

 British Jungermannia? of Dr Hooker. 



18. Exotic Flora and Botanical Magazine. — The Exotic Flora, we are in- 

 formed, will be terminated with the two next numbers, which, with the title- 

 pages and indexes, will complete the third volume. The author, however, 

 Dr Hooker, has but relinquished one botanical work to undertake another 

 of a similar nature. The advanced age and indifferent state of health of 

 Dr Sims, has compelled him to discontinue the direction of the Botanical 

 Magazine, and Dr Hooker has already succeeded to the superintending the 

 continuation ; the drawings, as well as the descriptions, being entirely ex- 

 ecuted by himself. Of this extensive work, which has now reached to 58 

 volumes, including above 2700 plates, a New Series will be commenced on 

 the 1st of January 1827, with improved paper, plates, &c. New subscri- 

 bers can therefore commence with it as with a new work, and those sub- 

 scribers, who already possess the old series, will be secure in not having a 

 recurrence of figures of the same plants as appeared in the former numbers. 



