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dredfold anticipation of death, than would be the case were it killed by 
one blow of the paw ? After all, what is our perpetual escape from the 
dangers of death that surround us, but a constant running away from 
the paws of = great black cat, which we know will do for us at 
last ? "—p. 9 
** Are the indt of vegetable life in themselves so many proofs 
against any psychological signification? Why should there be only 
animated creatures which run, cry, and eat, and not also others that 
blossom, perfume the air, satiate their thirst in draughts of dew, their 
longings in the development of buds, and a still higher tendency in 
their turning towards the light of day? I can perceive no superiority in 
the mere act of running and crying, above the faculty of blossoming 
and perfuming, which should entitle a being to a soul and to sensa- 
tion; or why the graceful and ornamental form of the cleanly plant 
should be less worthy to possess a soul, than the unsightly form of the 
dirty grub? Does the rain-worm look at us with more animation 
than the Forget-me-not? Does its obscure wallowing beneath the 
ground display more free will and perception, than the ceaseless striving 
of the plant from the earth upwards into the reign of light, its purus 
expansion in all dineations! ?"—p. 13. 
Botanical Collection of the late PRINCE ADALBERT of Prussia. 
The collection of plants made in the Himalayas by the ill-fated 
Hofmeister, who accompanied Prince Adalbert of Prussia, himself also 
deceased at an early period of life, has been studied and arranged by 
Dr. Klotzsch. It comprises, besides a small collection of useful and 
ornamental species, which were procured in Ceylon, 440 species from 
the Himalayas, amongst which are 10 new genera and 145 new species. 
The description of this interesting collection, will, it is expected, ap- 
pear very shortly.—Bot. Zeitung, June 22nd, 1849 
