468 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
les Bibliothèques des Universités à Leipzig, Gottingen et 
Liège, et autres, ont été successivement visitées par lui, et 
en comparant partout son manuscrit avec les livres im- 
primés, plus de 40,000 volumes ont passé sous ses mains." 
The arrangement is alphabetical. An asterisk (*) placed - 
before the title of a book indicates that it has been examined 
by the Author in Germany; a cross (t) that he has met with 
the book in France or Geneva. The few books which have | 
no signs have not been seen by the author; and generally a 
letter explains where he has seen the title. For the rare 
publications, the libraries in which they exist are men- 
tioned. On the wrapper of the 2nd Fasciculus, which 
is promised to appear soon, the explanation of the signs and 
abbreviations will be given. The anonymous books and 
periodical publications and a table are to follow, when the 
alphabetical enumeration shall be terminated. There will 
be also a notice of printed Arabian books, promised by 
M. Wüsterfeld of Gôttingen ; then will come the scientific 
part, without the bibliographic details. The author has 
further the intention of afterwards publishing a second 
volume, containing a repertory of the literature of scientific 
journals, in order to render more useful a work, which, he v 
hopes, will leave nothing to desire with respect to exactitude - Ü 
and to the value of the matter it will contain. ge 
Such are the intentions of the Author, which we shall be 
glad to find fully carried: through. The work will appear n - 
eight fasciculi, each of ten sheets. The first number includes : 
_ the notice of 2995 works. Since writing the above we have 
. received the 2nd Fasciculus of this really valuable publication, - 
extending to the article * Link ;" and it does, so far as It & 
goes, bear out the author in all that he has promised, and Í 
the wrapper, as announced, contains the ** explicatio signaram 
preecipuarum.” TES 
