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requiring some notice from us, have been published; and a third which had pre- 

 viously escaped, has since recurred to, our recollection. The First of these 

 is a Familiar History of Birds, by the Rev. Edward Stanley, M. A., F. L. S., 

 jn two neat duodecimo volumes, — an interesting and useful little work; 

 of which we shall present a brief analysis in our next number: the Second, 

 The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History, accompanied by an English trans- 

 lation of The Animal Kingdom, of Guvier, equally remarkable for its cheap- 

 ness and excellence, by Captain Thomas Brown : and Third, The Zoolo- 

 gist's Text-Book, in two duodecimo volumes, illustrated with 1200 accurate 

 figures of animals, by the same zealous and enlightened author. 



In a very lady-like remonstrance, addressed to the Editor of The Analyst, 

 Mrs. Perrott, authoress of a Selection of British Birds, complains that the 

 writer of the Retrospect contained in our last Number, has been guilty of an 

 act of misrepresentation and injustice with respect to that work. We there 

 stated that Mrs. Perrott's " Selections" were destitute of" plan or order." 

 This she denies 4 avowing her intention to supply an index of the species, 

 and a scientific arrangement of the pljites, at the close of the work ; and re- 

 ferring to her Prospectus for proof that such was her original design. That 

 Prospectus we had not seen. Partly, then, to this act of negligence in us, 

 and partly to the injudicious choice of the term. Selections, by Mrs. Perrott, 

 — a most unfortunate title, truly, for a professedly systematic work,— may be 

 attributed the error into which the unlucky " Scribe" has been unwittingly 

 betrayed : an error, however, for which he is solicitous to make every re- 

 paration which a candid and honourable mind can, on the one hand, express ; 

 or, on the other, require. 



Birmingham, December ^th, 1835. P. 



NOTITI^ BOTANIC^. 

 By G. B. Knowles, Esq., M. R. C. S., F. L. S., &c. 



X-ecturer on Botany at the Birmingham School of Medicine, and Honorary Ser 

 cretary of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. 



The following observations, made during an excursion to the 

 Isle of Wight, in the summer of 1832, may possibly prove not un- 

 acceptable to botanists who may be induced to visit that beautiful 

 island. 



in travelling by coach from hence to Southampton, I was neces- 

 sarily obliged to submit to the mortification so frequently experi- 

 ^aced by the botanist, of seeing rarities by the way, without being 

 apie to gather them. I could not but remark, however, the total 



