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a dry hill covered with low shrubs we found great plenty of Kramer ia 

 ixina, and a species of Clusia, with large white flowers, and attaining 

 the stature of a small tree. 



The island is about three leagues in length and half as much 

 across, and is said to contain upwards of 2000 inhabitants, who de- 

 rive their principal subsistence from fishing, and though apparently 

 very poor showed us much hospitality. Though there are both a 

 lawyer and a priest among them they have no medical man ; and as 

 soon as it became known that I was such, I was consulted by great 

 numbers. Two of my patients were in the last stage of consumption, 

 but by far the greater proportion of cases were the results of inter- 

 mittent fever, chiefly consisting of derangement in the digestive or- 

 gans, especially the spleen and liver. As I would receive no fees, 

 many were the presents which the grateful creatures made me, and 

 I was loaded with fish, fowls, and fruit. 



On my return to Pernambuco, I found that about fifty species of 

 living plants, and upwards of 700 specimens had been the amount of 

 my collections during the four days we had passed on the island of 

 Itamanca. G. Gardner. 



The collections of dried specimens have safely reached this coun- 

 try, and we cannot but congratulate this enterprising botanist on the 

 success of his labours in the present instance (including a few from 

 Rio, which were not considered worthy of being added to the sets 

 for general distribution) amounting to upwards of 490 species, in very 

 fine preservation, with the numbers and localities attached to them, and 

 occasionally, when they could be determined, the names also. They 

 prove in the different character of the species how very dissimilar is 

 the vegetation of Pernambuco : very few Orchidece, very few ferns, 

 and comparatively few Monocotyledons ; rich in Compositce, Melasto- 

 macece, Myrtacece, Leguminosce, &c. &c. Several of the rarities of this 

 collection are already engraved for our forthcoming volume (the 3rd) 

 of the ' Icones Plantarum.' 



We hope shortly to give an account of Mr. Gardner's excursion 

 into the interior of the province of Pernambuco. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



A Monograph on the Anatidae or Duck Tribe. By T. C. Eyton, Esq., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S. 4to. London, 1838. 



The various works which are constantly appearing on natural 



