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with those of adjoining regions. This has been done for plants. 

 The Swiss flora has been well worked up both by German and by 

 French botanists ; it is included in Koch's Synopsis and some other 

 German Floras. De CandoUe and other writers on the French 

 flora had to introduce a large portion of the Swiss vegetation ; and 

 the compilers of the rather numerous Swiss Floras and Handbooks* 

 have generally followed either the one or the other, so that there 

 remains but little difficulty in the identification of Swiss botanical 

 races; but here, as elsewhere, methodical Faunas of the country are 

 much in arrear. I have the following notes from M. Humbert of 

 what has been published in this respect during the last three 

 years. 



V. Fatio, ' Faune des Yertebres de la Suisse,' 8vo, vol. i. Mammi- 

 feres, 1869 (reported on in * Zoological Record,' vi. p. 4) : the second 

 volume, ReptUes, Batrachia, and Fishes, to appear in the course of 

 the present year, the 3rd and 4th vols. (Birds) to foUow. " This Fauna 

 is the first which has been published on the Vertebrata of Switzer- 

 land. Hitherto there had only been partial and incomplete Cata- 

 logues. The species are carefully described ; and there are numerous 

 notes on their distribution and habits, from the author's observations 

 made in all the Swiss collections and in the field. There are also 

 interesting historical details upon certain animals which have more 

 or less completely disappeared from Swiss territory, such as the 

 stag, the roebuck, and the wild boar, as also on the mammifers 

 whose remains have been found in recent deposits." G. Stierlin and 

 V. de Gautard, " Fauna Coleopterorum Helvetica," in the Nouveaux 

 Memoires of the Helvetic Society, xxiii. and xxiv., a catalogue with 

 stations and often limits in altitude, supplementing Heer's ' Fauna 



* In the list of publications of the last three years only, sent me by M. A. de 

 CandoUe, are the following new Swiss Botanical Handbooks : — J. C. Ducom- 

 mun, ' Taschenbuch flu* den schweizerischen Botaniker,' 1 vol. 8to, of 1024 

 pages, with some analytical woodcuts : few details on stations. E. T. Simler, 

 ' Botanischer Taschenbegleiter des Alpenclubisten,' 1 vol. 12mo, 4 plates : alpine 

 species only. Tissiere (late Canon of St. Bernard, now deceased), ' Guide du 

 Botaniste au Grand St.-Bernard,' 1 vol. 8to : a catalogue with detailed localities. 

 J.Rhiner, 'Prodrom derWaldstadter Gefasspflanzen,' 1 vol. 8vo: a catalogue with 

 details as to localities. Mortliier, ' Flore analytique de la Suisse,' 1 vol. ISmo : 

 imitated from an older German ' Excursions-Flora fiir die Schweiz,' by A. Gremli. 

 A new (3rd) edition of L. Fischer's ' Flora von Bern' and Fischer-Ooster's ' Rubi 

 Bernenses ;' the latter woi'k, together with some contributions to the Swiss Flora 

 of A. Gremli, adding 98 pages to the volumes of Batological literature we 

 already possess, without advancing a step either in giving us a clear notion of 

 what is a species of Bramble, or in facilitating our naming those we meet with, 

 unless in the precise localities indicated by the several authors. 



