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NATURAL HISTORY REVIEW 



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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 



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XXVIII. -COLONIAL FLORAS. 



1. Flora of tiie British "West Indian Islands. By A. H. R. 



Grisebach, M.D., Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Grottingen. Published under the authority of H. M. Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies. Parts I.-III. 



2. Flora Capensis: being a Systematic description of the Plants of the 



Cape Colony, Caftraria, and Port Natal, by William Henry Harvey, 

 M.D., F.B.S., Professor of Botany in the University of Dublin, 

 &c. and Otto Wilhelm Sonder, Ph. D. of Hamburgh. Vol. I. 



3. Exumeratio Plantarum Zetlanle : an Enumeration of Ceylon 

 Plants, with descriptions of the little known Genera and Species, 

 observations on their habitats, uses, native names, &c. by G-. H. 

 K. Thwaites, P.L.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Pera- 

 denia, Ceylon. Parts I.-III. 



4. Flora Hong-Kongensis : a description of the Flowering Plants 



and Ferns of the Island of Hong-Kong, by George Bentham, 

 Esq., V.P.L.S., with a Map of the Island. Published under the 

 authority of H. M. Secretary of State for the Colonies. 



The object of this communication is to give publicity to the steps 

 now being taken, partly under the authority of the Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies, partly under that of some of the Colonial 

 Governments, and in some cases by -private individuals, to pro- 

 cure a series of good, but inexpensive, scientific works on the Ve- 

 getable productions of the British Colonies. 



Up to the present time, it is believed, that there are (with the ex- 

 ception of three unfinished Floras, to which we shall hereafter refer) 

 but three of our foreign possessions whose plants have been pub- 

 lished in a cheap systematic form, available equally to the traveller, 

 the man of science, and the settler ; these are Aden, Gibraltar, and 



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