96 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



Botanical Information — (H. G. R. Robinson, Governor, West Indies) Notes 

 on the Vegetation of the Island of St. Kitt's. (Burke) Fibre cleaning machine. 

 Scientific. — Exploring Expeditions of the British Government. We have 

 here the details of the Expedition under Dr. W. B. Baikieup the Niger (Kwora) 

 and Tsadda (Benue), of the Survey of Vancouver's Island, and the adjacent coasts 

 of British North America, by Capt. Richards, and of an Exploring Journey into 

 British North America, by J. Palliser, Esq. All the expeditions are accompanied by 

 Botanists or by Medical men whose knowledge of Natural History will in these 

 unexplored regions be found most important. Notices of new Books. 



No. 100, May. — Notice of the Botanic Garden at Peradenia, Ceylon ; with a 

 List of Natural Families and Genera of Phtenogamic Plants and Ferns, showing 

 the number of species indigenous to Ceylon wiiich each genus contains, and 

 which are in the Herbarium, or drawings of them in the Library of the Gardens. 

 The number of species is 2,916. (Dr. Berthold Seeman) On the Properties and 

 Uses of the Crescentiacea;. Ascent of Chimborazo, by M. Jules Reiny, a French- 

 man, and by Mr. Brenckley, an Englishman. According to the account of these 

 gentlemen, they found themselves, after many weary hours spent in ascending, 

 compelled to descend this far-famed mountain, owing to the raging of a furious 

 Equatorial storm ; but before doing so, they, by means of therm- -meters, took 

 observations as to the height they had reached. For some time previous it had 

 been almost dark ; but they became sensible that the elevation had become lesa 

 steep, and they were even able to walk with facility. On reaching Guaranda 

 they calculated from their observations that they had reached the height, 21,466 

 feet, which is the elevation assigned to Chimborazo by Humboldt. Humboldt, 

 accompanied by Bonpland, had reached as high as 19,357, in 1802, and Bous- 

 singault, in 1831, as high as 19,700. Botanical information. Letter from James 

 Motley from Borneo, and from Rev. G. Nicol, from Sierra Leone. Notices of 

 new Books. 



No. 101, June. — (James Tate Johnson) Notes on some rare, new, little known 

 Plants inhabiting Madeira. (Dr. F. Mueller, Colonial Botanist of Melbourne, 

 and Botanist to the Expedition) Notes made during the recent Expedition 

 across the Northern portion of Australia, under the command of Mr. Surveyor 

 Gregory. (Sir W. J. Hooker, F.L.S.) On the Palmite of South Africa. 

 (J. D. Hooker, M.D.) On Notaspartium, a new genus of Leguminosae from New 

 Zealand. (Captain E. W. Ward, R.E.; Report on the New Zealand Woods. 

 New Zealand Flax. £4000 reward for rendering the Flax and other fibrous 

 plants of the country available as articles of export. Botanical Information.—. 

 Accomplishment of the overland journey across North Australia from Victoria 

 River (N. W. Australia) to Brisbane on the East coast, &c. Notices of Books. 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. No. 18, January, 1857. 



Price 4s. With Woodcuts and Lithographic Illustrations. 8vo. London : 



John Churchill. 



Original Communications (W. Lauder Lindsay, M.D.) Monograph of the 



genus Abrothallus. We hope to notice this monograph in the Review portion of 

 our next number. (Rev. J. B. P. Dennis) Existence of Birds during the depo- 

 sition of the Stonesfield Slate, proved by a comparison of the Mieroscopic Struc- 

 ture of certain Bones of that formation with that of recent bones. (Thomas H. 

 Huxley, F.R.S.) On Dysteria, a new genus of Infusoria. (Professor J. W. 

 B liley) Origin of Greensand and its formation in the Oceans of the Present 

 Epoch. (Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne) Further observations on Vegetable 

 growth. (Dr. Woodham Webb) On striated muscular fibres in the skin of the 

 Human Lip. Translations. (A. Braun) New and little known genera of Uni- 

 cellular Algse, preceded by observations respecting Unicellular Alga? in general. 

 (Dr. H. Cienkowfcki) Remarks on Dr. Stein's doctrine respecting Acineta forms. 

 Notes and Correspondence and Proceedings of the Microscopical Society. 



