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view ; and, even in treating of the well-known Marchantia, he forgets to 

 tell us, that for curing a " cold," or " binding of the heart," it is the 

 sovereign'st thing on earth. Whether this be the case or not, we think 

 there are few of our readers who will study this introduction but will unite 

 in saying, with an eminent botanist " In the economy of man they form 

 but an insignificant part; but in the economy of nature, how vast an 

 end I" 



We have the greatest pleasure in strongly recommending this work. 

 Let our readers but obtain a copy of it, together with a penknife and a 

 good Codington lens, and they will be enabled to find fresh interest in 

 their daily walks whether they be on the mountain-tops, or by the river's 

 side yes, even on the wall-top, and on the garden- walk, they will find 

 plenty to instruct both their eye and heart. They will, doubtless, have a 

 large field open to them, as there is no spot on the surface of our globe 

 more highly favoured with the mosses than the British Isles ; and some of 

 them may be found all the year round. If they be collected in boggy 

 ground a favourite locality the collector should beware lest he " fall into 

 a peat-hole," and come home in a most deplorable plight, with a loss of 

 all his mossy treasures, and a great addition to his accustomed weight. 

 We have instructions for raising some of the Musci by seed ; but, by some 

 mistake, we have none for preserving them however, this is very easily 

 done. 



We think naturalists, in general, should thank the publisher of this 

 series of popular natural history, and we think botanists, in particular, 

 should welcome this charming addition to its numbers. The plates are 

 drawn by Fitch, and represent 55 different species. With their aid, we 

 have no doubt, beginners will be able to make good progress in naming 

 their collections. 



CATALOGUE OF BRITISH MARINE POLYZOA IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 

 With Plates. Parts I. & II. 8vo. By George Busk, F.R.S., &c., &c. 



SINCE the publication of Dr. Johnston's Monograph, which must ever be 

 valued by the student of our native zoophytes as the authority to which 

 he will most naturally refer, the naturalist has received no so welcome boon 

 in connection with these but too long neglected classes as the present work, 

 for which we are indebted to the zeal and liberality of the Trustees of the 

 British Museum, and we gladly hail it as a proof of the rapid advance which 

 has been made, within the last few years, in zoophytological science, and as 



