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patronage of his fellow-students in this delightful science, 
which, to those who cultivate it, furnishes at once a recreation 
both healthful and innocent, and an instructive and not un- 
useful occupation. He speaks with some confidence of these 
its invaluable qualities, and he does so with gratitude to the . 
Author of Nature, who has permitted him to contemplate 
Him in his works, and to perceive order as well as beauty in 
one of the fairest portions of His creation, and therewith to 
solace and to cheer those hours which otherwise might have 
brought to an invalid only uneasiness and heaviness of spirit, 
during long years of necessary separation from his family and 
home." 1 
6. Primitie Flore Sarnice; or an Outline of the Flora of 
. the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and 
. Serk: containing a Catalogue of the Plants indigenous to 
. the islands, with occasional observations upon their dis- 
tinctive characters, affinities, and nomenclature. By 
Cnanrrs C. Basineton, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., &c. 
7. Supplement to the Flora Bathoniensis. By CuanLEs C. 
BABINGTON, &c. &c. 
Mr Baszineron has been long known as a most diligent 
investigator of British plants, and as an acute observer of 
specific differences. To the ** Flora Bathoniensis," published 
Some years ago, the author has now added a supplement; 
and he has rendered much greater service to the cause of 
British Botany by his researches in the Channel islands, a 
group, the vegetable productions of which had previously 
engaged very little attention, ** probably," as Mr Babington 
observes, “ because of their situation. Being connected geo- 
graphically with France, and politically with England, the 
natural history of these islands has been neglected by the 
scientific men of both countries;—those of the former not 
looking upon them as part of France, and the latter right- | 
ly (?) considering them as beyond the natural boundaries of 
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