LITERARY NOTICES. 



On the 1st of April will ho piil)lishod, Xo. If. of 



THE ANNAi:.S OF NATURAI. HISTORV, 



Or 3TAGAZINE of Zoology, Botany, and Geology, with engravings, 



conductors: 

 For Zoology, Sir W. Jahdixe, Bart., P. J. Selby, Esq. and Dr. .Iohnntux. 

 For Botany, Sir \V. J. Hookkr, Reg. Prof. Bot., Glasgow. 

 For General Correspondence, R. Taylor, Under Sec. Linn. .See. 



London: R. <!' J. E. Taylor; S. Highlcy: Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars. 



In a few days will be published, No. II. of 



DR. LINDLEY'S SPLENDID WORK, 

 SERTUra ORCHIDACEUM, 



On Elephant Folio, Price '25s, beautifully Coloured. 



In consequence of the growing taste for the cultivation of Tropical Orchide- 

 ous plants, and the impossibility of doing justice to many of those noble epiphytes 

 in the small plates of the cheap Botanical periodicals of the dav, ^lessrs. 

 RiDGWAYS have been induced to make arrangements with Professor Lindley 

 for the publication of a selection of the most remarkable of the Tribe in a 

 manner worthy of their interest and beauty. 



It is proposed to accomplish this object bv seizing such o])portunitics as may 

 occur of making drawings of any very beautiful specimens which may be produced 

 from time to time in the hot-houses of this country, and by adding to them 

 figures of some of those magnificent species, which are at present unknown in 

 Europe in a living state. It is expected that by this means Cultivators will have 

 the advantage of knowing in what countries to seek for such kinds as it is most 

 desirable to procure, and will also know when the Specimens they already pos- 

 sess have arrived at the greatest perfection of which they are susceptible. 



The riches of Tropical forests in plants of this description are inconceivably 

 great, and however beautiful are many of the species already in cultivation, they 

 are, with a few exceptions only, inferior in richness of colour and singularity of 

 form to numerous kinds still lurking in their native woods, and only known in 

 Europe from the drawings in the portfolio of the Botanist, or from the dried spe- 

 ciinpr<^ in his herbarium. It is probable that no ])erson has such materials for 

 the jjinsiation of these Plants as Professor Lindley : who will put the whole 

 of tliem m requisition for the embellishment of a Work upon which no expense 

 will be i; ared to render it worthy of the present state of science on the one hand 

 and of ai' on the other. 



No. III. will be published in July. 

 In a few days will be published, No. II. price £'2. 'Is. of 



MR. BATEMAN'S SPLENDID WORK, 



ORCHIDACE^ 



OF 



MEXICO AND GUATEIVIAI.A, 



N.B. Price to Subscribers as usual. 



