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been taken from a painting by S. H. Maguire, gives us what seems to speak 

 for itself as being a "vera effigies" of the departed "Naturalist." It is but 

 a sad substitute for the loss of the original, but even such a memento is 

 valuable to all who admire the eminence of the deceased. 



This fourth volume, which is of an octavo size, contains 516 pages — 

 496 without the index. 



A Dictionary of Botanical Terms. By the Rev. J. S. Henslow, j\I.A., 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. Illustrated by nearly 

 two hundred cuts. London: Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row. 



So long ago as the year 1837, I indicated ray opinion of the usefulness 

 of a rendering into English of scientific words, by giving in "The Naturalist" 

 the derivations of the Latin and Greek names of British Birds; and in 

 my "History of British Birds/' since published, I have carried out the same 

 idea, by giving at the head of each article the meaning or derivation of 

 one of each of the generic and specific names adopted for each species. 



While such a diversity of languages are spoken by different nations, the 

 absolute necessity of the adoption of some dead language as a medium of 

 intercommunication between scientific persons, must be at once apparent. 

 It is not, however, every one that has received a University or classical 

 education, and to such, a translation into their own tongue of what other- 

 wise must be unintelligible, is a direct benefit — a sort of Royal Road to the 

 knowledge of what they otherwise could not know. 



The present work, therefore, will at once be seen to be a useful one, and 

 that it is well done, the name of the Rev. Professor Henslow, so long one 

 of our "Household Words," will be a ready and a perfect guarantee, an 

 "Indisputable Assurance." 



The Sea-side Lesson Book; designed to convey to the youthful mind a know- 

 ledge of the Nature and Uses of the Common Things of the Sea-Coast. 

 By H. G. Adams, Author of the "Young Naturalist's Library," "Fa- 

 vourite Song Birds," "A Story of the Seasons," etc., etc. London: 

 Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row. 1856. p.p. 215. 

 Mr. Adams is now well known as a writer, and he will lose none of 

 the favourable character he has acquired by the present work. It is a 

 nice companion for young people when sojourning by the sea-side, and they 

 cannot read it without learning much. It is divided into six sections, at 

 the head of each of which is a vignette, indicative of the general nature 

 of its contents; and at the end of the several sections is a series of ques- 

 tions, by which the reader's acquirement of knowledge through its means 

 may be tested. I am glad to have been instrumental in some degree in 

 "bringing out" the capabilities of Mr. Adams. 



