i2'2t> REVIEWS OF NEW PI 'BULICAl IONS. 



Henry Duncan, D.D. Edinburgh: Oliphant and Son. 1837. fcap 8vo. pp; 4l0 

 each. 



In a former number (Vol. I. p; 274) we took occasion to make favorable notice 

 of the first volume of this series, on Winter ; in the two parts now lying beside 

 us we are happy to observe the same philosophic and kindly spirit running 

 throughout Dr. Duncan's pages. 'The books are written with an earnestness 

 and an originality highly creditable to the reverend author^ and must surely 

 prove interesting to every admirer of Nature. Pressure of matter in other de- 

 partments alone prevents us from analyzing the volumes, and from presenting our 

 readers with the extracts we had marked ; but we are convinced the work must 

 obtain an extensive circulation. 



The Botanist. Monthly. Nos. iv. & v., April and May. London : Grocm- 

 bridge. 



Tins publication, conducted by the well-known botanists, Mr. Maund and 

 Prof. Henslow, has already been so enthusiastically received by the critical and 

 reading public, that we need only observe, that both illustrations and letter-press 

 fully maintain the high character so universally admitted to belong to the fonner 

 parts of the work. 



An Analysis of the British Ferns and their Allies. By George W. Francis; 

 London : Simpkin & Co. 1837- 8vo. pp. 68. 



The arrangement of this work is excellent, all the species of this interesting 

 tribe of plants being included, with illustrative copper-plates of the genera, va- 

 rieties, &c. The introduction contains much valuable matter, and the author has 

 been assisted in his somewhat difficult task by several eminent and enterprising 

 botanists. The treatise is inscribed to Sir W. J . Hooker, and appears to us 

 altogether indispensable to the student of the British Ferns. On a large sepa- 

 rate sheet, the author has sent us the third edition of a Catalogue of the British 

 Floieering Plants and Ferns, the value of which, being well and clearly drawn 

 up, every botanist will be able to appreciate. 



1. A History of British Birds, indigenous and migratory. By W. MacGil- 

 livray, A. M., F R. S. E. Vol. I. London : Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1837. 

 8vo. pp. 631. 



2. Journal of a Horticultural Tour through Germany, Belgium, and Part, 

 of France, in the Autumn of 1835. By James Forbes, A. L. S., &c. London : 

 Ridgway and Sons, 1837- 8vo. p. p. 164. 



3. Annual Report of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and 

 Antiquarian Society, for 1836. Shrewsbury : John Davies, High Street. 1837. 

 pp. 47. 



Books with the above titles are published, and will be further noticed in our next. 

 A Flora of Shropshire, by Mr. W. A. Leighton, is preparing for publication. 



