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with the laws lately instituted in Germany for the prevention of its poison- 
ous effects. 
Annals of Natural History ; or Magazine of Zoology, Botany, and Geology, con- 
ducted by Sir W. Jardine, Bart. P. J. Selby, Esq. Dr. Johnston, Sir W. J. 
Hooker, and Richard Taylor, F.L.S. 8vo, London, 1838, with graphic 
illustrations. 
No. VIII, Ocroser.—Observations on Otaria falklandica, the fur-seal of 
commerce, are made the subject of a very curious and important article from 
the pen of Mr. R. Hamilton. He premises a few notices on the history of 
the South Sea seal trade, on the furs of seals, and on the particular animal 
which yields the fur seal skin of the traders. Next, he characterizes this 
creature and adjoins the measurements of two specimens; and then, with 
some particulars regarding its habits, he gives a natural history of the Falk- 
land otary sufficiently well calculated to excite the attention alike of mer- 
chants and philosophers. His observations are illustrated by an excellent 
figure. In a lively sketch, Mr. Forster shows distinctly that the Ononis an- 
tiquorum of Linnzeus is the common Restharrow which so beautifully adorns 
our heaths. Mr. Iries separates the genus Syngnathus into two sub-divi- 
sions, to which he applies their Swedish provincial names—Tangsnallor, the 
marsupial pipe-fish, and Hafsnalar, the ophidial pipe-fish: he next enume- 
rates eight general peculiarities of the fishes, and then distinguishes the three 
native Swedish species, Syngnathus equoreus, the zequoreal pipe-fish; S. 
ephidion, the common pipe-fish; and S. Jwmbriciformis, the little pipe-fish ; by 
their proper zoological characters. Mr. Bentham contributes an enumeration 
of the plants collected in British Guiana by Mr. Schomburgk, the indefati- 
gable botanical traveller. -His list comprises thirty-six species, including 
some belonging to a French collection. Under the tribe VernonracE”, he 
specifies Sparganophorus vaillantii, Vernonia cdoratissima, V. scorpioides, V. 
tricholepis and microcephala, Centratherum muticum, Elephantopus carolinia- 
nus, Elephantosis angustifolia, 'Trichospira menthoides, and Pectis elongata.— 
Eleven species are Evparoriace#& ; namely, Odclinium villosum, O. clavatum, 
Eupatorium sulvelutinum, E. conyzoides, E. subobtusum, E. ixodes, Mikania 
racemulosa, M. hookeriana, M. denticulata, M. convolvulacea, and M. parkeria- 
na. The tribe AsrERomEs# has belonging to it, Baccharis /eptocephala, and 
Eclipta erecta. ‘There are fourteen SENEcIONIDEA, being Riencourtia glo- 
merata, Latreillea glabrata, Clibadium asperum, C. erosum, Unxia camphorata, 
U. hirsuta, Acanthospermum wanthoides, Wedelia scaberrima, W. discoidea, 
Wulffia platyglossa, Bidens bipinnata, Cosmos caudatus, Schomburgkia* cal- 
* “Mr. Robert Schomburgk was, in the year 1834, appointed by the Royal Geographi- 
cal Society to command an expedition into the interior of British Guiana, with permission 
at the same time to make collections, on his own account, in the various branches of 
natural history, one set being deposited in the British Museum. Having procured a 
certain number of subscribers to the dried plants which he should collect, it was further 
arranged that Mr. 8. should make them up in sets, and forward them to Mr. Bentham for 
transmission to the subscribers, and that each species should be marked with correspond- 
