NOTICES OF BOOKS. 221 
Note from H. G. REICHENBACH, fil. 
The following notification is taken from Bot. Zeit., June 1st :— 
* In order at once to meet idle reports, I hereby inform those gen- 
tlemen who have confided plants to my care, that not a leaf has been 
injured during the late fire at Dresden.* I had previously secured all 
property belonging to others, at the risk of my own life. Even my 
own collection suffered little (several musket-shots went through the 
packets); and in a very short time I shall be able to forward the few 
collections that are due. 
H. G. Reichenbach, fil. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Manrrus' Genera et Species Palmarum. 
After a long interval, occasioned no doubt, in part by the political 
events in Bavaria, and by difficulties over whichthe talented author had 
no controul, the ninth Fasciculus of this gigantic work has appeared, 
containing seventy-seven pages of letter-press, and about thirty plates, 
together with forty-nine pages of letter-press belonging to no. 7, given 
gratis, to supply the corresponding pages, printed on paper which had 
changed colour. We have here the assurance,—‘‘ Que l'ouvrage entier 
sera achevé en trois mois, car il ne restent à publier que peu de pages 
du texte et les titres et tables de matière.” We shall gladly hail this 
event, and be proud to be able to notice the completion of the most 
splendid, and at the same time the most learned of all botanical 
works. 
remm ttam 
* “An equally favourable report, I regret to say, cannot be given of the other 
botanical collections preserved there. "The wax models of fungi, which were made 
at Vienna, under Trattinick’s care, are destroyed: several old herbaria have been 
burnt; and Counsellor Reichenbach has lost part of his herbarium (especially his 
Cryptogamic plants) and many books.” —Ep. of Bot. Zeit. 
