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Manufacture of the Cleveland District. (H. C. Sorby) The Physical Geography 

 of the Tertiary Estuary of the Isle of Wight. (T. Strethill Wright, M.D.) On 

 Hydractinia echinata ; with two plates. (/.Thomas Stevenson) Description of a 

 self-registering maximum and minimum arrangement for the Syphon Barometer. 

 (Professor J. Forbes) Notice respecting Father Secchi's Statical Barometer and 

 on the Origin of the Cathetometer. (Professor Goodsir) On the reproductive 

 economy of Bees ; being an account of the Results of Von Siebold's recent re- 

 searches in Parthenogenesis. Reviews. Correspondence. Proceedings of Societies. 

 The American Association. Scientific Intelligence. We perceive that the next 

 volume of the Smithsonian Institute Publications is likely to be Dr. Brewer's great 

 work on American Oology. The first part to include the rapacious Birds, and, 

 perhaps, the Swallows — there will be five quarto plates to this part, all the figures 

 taken in Photograph from the original Eggs, and printed in colours — the result being 

 extremely beautiful and accurate. Index and Title page to Vol. V., New Series. 



The Phytologist. A Botanical Journal. Published Monthly. 8vo. Lon- 

 don : W. Pamplin. New Series. No. 24, April ; No. 25, May ; No. 26, June, 

 1857. Price Is. each. 



No. 24, April. — (John Windsor, F.L.S.) On the Hieracia of Settle. (Isaac 

 Carroll) Notices of scarce Irish Plants. (J. G. Baker) Maritime and Inland 

 Temperatures ; or the contrast between the summer temperature of an inland 

 and a maritime locality. General summary, or results of a Tour in Scotland. 

 (Robert C. Douglass) Pyrus domestica. Notices of Books. Botanical Notes. 

 Notices and Queries. 



No. 25, May.— (Rev. W. M. Hind) Dingle and its Flora. (Rev. H. A. 

 Stowell) Notes on the Rarer Faversham Plants. (J. G. Baker) Notes and 

 Description of new British Lichens. (John H. Davies) Mosses occurring on 

 the Isle of Man. Notices of New Books. (Professor Lindley) On Spiranthes 

 gemmipara. Feejee Islands and their vegetation. Botanical Notes. Notices 

 and Queries. 



No. 26, June. — (H. J. Church) Diatomacese, their characteristics and struc- 

 ture ; together with remarks on collecting and examining this order of plants, 

 being condensed from Rabenhorst's work on the Fresh-water Diatomaceae. 

 Note on the root of the Cicuta virosa. On Progress. (George Jordan) Econo- 

 mical Botany. Note on Calamintha Nepeta. (Rev. T. F. Ravenshaw) Botanical 

 notes from Wells, Somersetshire. Reviews. Botanical Notes. Notices and 

 Queries. Among these we find a notice of the exhibition of Fungi in eases. 

 The Fungi referred to, which are exhibited in one of the rooms of the Royal 

 Institute, Liverpool, were collected by the Rev. H. H. Higgins, and are arranged 

 on stained deal boards, about 4 inches by 6. The specimens were dried without 

 pressure, and retain in most cases their natural form and colour. They are all 

 indigenous to Liverpool and its immediate environs. We never saw a more 

 interesting collection. It reflects the greatest credit on the respected botanist, 

 to whose unwearied industry it owes its formation. We would suggest that 

 such Fungi as are useful, or good for food, should be marked as such, and those 

 known to be decidedly poisonous might be conspicuously placed. If the flavours 

 of the various mushrooms (which could be found in Badham's amusing work) 

 were also affixed, it might offer still greater attractions to our English Fungi 

 eaters. Each number of the Phytologist contains 8 pp. of Descriptive British 

 Botany. 



Hooker's Journal of Botany, and Kew Garden Miscellany. No. 99, 

 April ; No. 100, May ; No. 101, June, 1857. 8vo. London : Lovell Reeve. 

 Each number with one Plate. Price 2s. 



No. 99, April.— The Exhibition at Paris, 1855.— (Keuter, C. E.) Forest 

 Economy, particularly as regards the Austrian department. Excursion into the 

 Interior of Navite Levue, the principal of the Feejee Islands, being extracts of a 

 Letter from Mr. Milne, Botanist to H.M.S. Herald; dated Fejee, Oct. 7, 1856: 



