54 BOTANICAL-INFORMATION, 
sheets, and a whole sheet is besides used to enclose each 
species ; the name is placed on the left hand lower corner out- 
side, and the whole done up in bundles between pasteboards 
with leather straps. This arrangement is very neat, and is 
less objectionable than bundles tied with string; and, where 
frequent and rapid consultation is not so much the object, 
is one of the best I know; but I doubt whether anything 
but complete glueing will long preserve specimens that 
are often brought out for examination, Professor Parlatore, 
whom you saw this summer in England, is very eager 
in the promotion of botany here. Besides the direction of 
the herbarium and his lectures, he is at present chiefly oc- 
cupied with botanical anatomy, and is also continuing his 
Flora of Palermo. Professor Targioni-Tozzetti, who lectures 
on botany as well as chemistry at the Academy of Sciences, 
amongst his numerous occupations connected with medicine 
and chemistry, is much devoted to medical botany. The 
botanical articles in the great Diccionario delle Scienze Na- 
turali, now publishing here, taken chiefly from the French 
Dictionary, are by M. Brucalassi, an. Academician, and by 
Professor Targioni. There are two Botanical Gardens at 
Florence, the principal, in the Boboli Gardens, is attached to 
the Museum of Natural History in the Grand Ducal Palace 
under Professor Parlatore ; the other, under Professor Targioni, 
is attached to the Academy. 
Mr. dis iiods s * Travels in the Interior af Brazil, ‘pide 2. 
pally through the northern provinces and the Gold - and | 
Diamond districts, during the years 1836—41."— One - 
volume 8vo., with a Map of the Author's route, and a tried 
of the Organ Mountains.— Messrs. Reeves, Brothers. 
39 Ig would be out of character, in this Jodinsl, to PH cel 
attention/to:s work of this kind, simply as a book of Travels; ee 
. but so much of it is occupied by natural hist 
S ener botany, that we shonla: -— stand excused 
