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many duplicates of this noble collection to be distributed to the 

 principal public and private herbaria in this country, on the 

 continent of Europe, and in America. The collection of 

 living plants and seeds, unique both as to extent and rarity, has 

 been divided between the Royal establishment at Kew, and the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick. Every con- 

 siderable garden in Britain bears evidence to the success attend- 

 ing the exertions of the East India Company in behalf of bo- 

 tanical science, for there is not one of them which does not con- 

 tain plants recently introduced into Britain through the garden 

 at Calcutta. It is believed that in Chiswick garden alone, there 

 is at this moment from one to two hundred new East Indian 

 plants introduced in this way. 



III. The Infiuence of Climate in the Prevention and Cure of Chronic 

 Diseases, 8fc. By James Clark, M. D. Fellow of the Royal 

 College of Physicians of London, &c. 1 vol. 8vo. 



To the physician, natural historian, and also to the invalid 

 labouring under diseases likely to be cured or alleviated by a 

 change of climate, we recommend the perusal of this valuable 

 work. The facts it contains are accurate and well arranged — the 

 inferences from them judicious — and the practical rules stated 

 with great clearness and precision. It is divided into two parts. 

 lihejirst Part contains an interesting account of the mild climates 

 of the .south of Europe and of England ; points out the manner 

 in which the climate of different places resorted to by invalids 

 is modified by local circumstances, and compares these places 

 relatively to their influence on disease. This portion of the 

 work shews the Importance of a knowledge of natural history to 

 the physician. Some viedical communities, however, maintain 

 that all natural history, with exception of a little medical and 

 technical botany — the least interesting department of the beauti- 

 ful science of plants — may be safely dispensed with by the stu- 

 dent of medicine ! The second part gives an account of the 

 principal diseases which are benefited by a mild climate. Dr 

 Clark remarks, 



" As I anticipated th:..t the following work would be perused by many 

 persons not of the profession, but who are yet deeply interested in the subject 

 of climate, in relation to its effects on disease, I have endeavoured to express 

 myself in as plain language as possible ; and I trust I have succeeded in 



