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5. A CENTURY OF ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS, selected 

 from ' Curtis's Botanical Magazine/ consisting of a Imn- 

 dred of those most worthy of cultivation, systematically 

 arranged, and illustrated with Figures and Dissections 

 chietiy executed by Mr. Eitch; the descriptions by Sir 

 William JAcacsoN Hooker, K.H., D.C.L., Director of 

 the Royal Gardens of JKew; with copious remarks on their 

 culture and mode of treatment, by John Charles Lyons, 

 Esq., of MuUingar, L*eland. 



These iUustrations, now considerably advanced, wiU be published in 

 a superior style, in one complete, large-paper volume, size royal quarto ; 

 the descriptions are being newly written and their value wiU be much 

 enhanced by the addition of original practical information on their 

 mode of growth, by John Charles Lyons, Esq., including an intro- 

 duction to the culture and management of Orchldacea generally. 



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6. THE HISTORY, AFFINITIES, AND OSTEOLOGY 

 OF THE DODO, SOLITAIRE, and other extmct Birds 

 of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon. By 

 H. E. Strickland, M.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., and A. G. 

 Melville, M.D. Edin., M.R.C.S. 



The interest which has always attached to that singular bird, the 

 Dodo, having been recently much increased by the discovery of evidence 

 which proves that each of the three islands, Mauritius, Rodriguez, and 

 Bourbon, formerly possessed distinct species of birds of the same 

 anomalous family, it has been thought desirable to collect the scattered 

 facts and records, and publish a complete monograph of the present 

 state of our knowledge of the Didlna;, in order to remove the many 

 erroneous statements which are ciu-rent, and to restore these lost organ- 

 isms to their rank in the Natural System. 



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