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ANNALS OF NATURAL HISTORY; 



OR, 



MAGAZINE 



OF 



ZOOLOGY, BOTANY, AND GEOLOGY. 



(BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE { MAGAZINE OF ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY,' AND 



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> SIR \V. J. HOOKER'S ' BOTANICAL COMPANION.') 



CONDUCTED BY 



Sir W. JARDINE, Bart.— P. J. SELBY, Esq., 



Dr. JOHNSTON, 

 DAVID DON, Esq., Prof. Bot. King's Coll. Lond., 



^4 jfc AND 



RICHARD TAYLOR, F.L.S. 

 JUNE 1840. 



WITH A PLATE 



To illustrate Mr. Giraud's Paper on Vegetable Embryology : and En- 

 gravings on Wood of Beania mirabilis, a new Genus of Zoophyte. 



LONDON: 



RICHARD AND J. E. TAYLOR, 



PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 



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 W. WOOD, TAVISTOCK STREET; BAILLIERE, REGENT STREET, AND 

 PARIS : LIZARS, AND MACLACHLAN AND STEWART, EDINBURGH : 

 CURRY, DUBLIN: AND ASHER, BERLIN. 



