33G Bibliographical Notices. 



aver that they are to serve as patterns for printed cottons ; an opi- 

 nion worthy of a native of my "auld toon of Glasgow." 



By the boxes I wrote you a few lines, but I expect this letter will 

 reach you first, as I forward it to Pernambuco by a person whom 

 I am sending thither to bring me my letters or anything that may 

 be lying there for me, as I begin to feel anxious about my friends, 

 from whom I have had no news for nine whole months. It will take 

 him more than a month to go and return, but he will still be back 

 before I start for Piauhy. 



I had great difficulty in obtaining wood wherewith to make the 

 boxes which I have just despatched, and as to any help in the way 

 of making them, it was needful, after I had bought up at great ex- 

 pense all the old boxes in the town, to put them together with my 

 own hands, which are now so blistered with the use of the hammer 

 and saw that I can hardly hold my pen. Necessity has no law ; from 

 cooking downwards I have to do almost everything. Insects are 

 very rare here. I had collected a few dozens and laid them on the 

 house-top at night to dry in a sheet of paper, as the weather had^ 

 been damp ; but in the morning I had the mortification to find them 

 all gone except some of the legs and wings, which vexed me the more 

 as many of them were new. I shall recommence collecting imme- 

 diately. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



De Pinubus Taurico-Caucasicis. Auctore Steven*. 



In a preceding paper the propriety of considering the Caucasian 

 pines as a separate group was suggested, under the idea that they 

 would be found to differ from those of Europe, and that united with 

 those of Northern Asia they might prove to be of sufficient import- 

 ance to require a separate classification in the pinology of the globe. 

 These views have been completely confirmed by the work we are 

 about to examine, and at a much more recent period than we had 

 ventured to anticipate. We are indebted to M. Steven for bring- 

 ing together at one view the results not only of his own researches, 

 but those of Nordmann, Wittman, Sovitz and others ; a course which 

 cannot be too much commended from its superiority to the usual 

 practice in this sort of publication of giving the isolated discoveries 

 or observations of the writer, whilst those of others are carefully 

 withheld from notice. 



• For this review we are indebted to the kindness of Capt. S. E. Cook, 

 R.N.— Edit. 



