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and that for every locality given for a plant the initials of the name 
of the observer are attached. . 
The list of birds has been drawn up by R. B. Smith, Esq., of 
Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The notes attached to the name of 
each bird are interesting, and will be found to make this part of the 
work much easier reading than the list of plants. It would not per- 
haps be found impossible in Local Floras to make notes to the plants 
which might be instructive to the beginner in Botany. 
The Flora of Surrey is much the most important volume of the 
two. It is three times the size of the last; has two valuable coloured 
maps; embraces the plants of a county; has a history; and has been 
produced by men not unknown to fame. Who that has studied Natural 
History the last quarter of a century, is not acquainted with the 
papers of “ Rusticus, of Godalming ?” It was the late J. D. Salmon, 
of Godalming, with a few friends interested in the study of plants, 
who first resolved, at a meeting held in the town of Guildford, to pro- 
cure materials for the publication of a Flora of the county of Surrey. 
Mr. Salmon undertook the task of editing this Flora, and had pro- 
ceeded to some considerable extent with his task when he died. At 
the sale of his effects, in the autumn of 1861, all his MSS., and a rich 
collection of plants which he had formed, were purchased by the 
Holmesdale Natural History Club, and those materials were placed in 
the hands of the author of the ‘ Flora of Reigate,’ for publication. No 
one could be better fitted for the work, and Mr. Brewer has now pro- 
duced a Flora which, for accuracy and extent, stands unrivalled 
amongst the Local Floras of Great Britain. 
As already stated, this work is accompanied with two maps ; on one 
of them the county is divided into nine divisions, to each of which a 
letter is attached. Each plant is referred to in the list, as it is found 
in one or other of these divisions. The second is a geological map, 
which has been drawn and coloured from one laid down by Mr. Joseph 
Prestwich. The work opens with an Introduction on the Physical 
Geography and Botanical Divisions of the county of Surrey, which, we 
are informed, was written by the late J. D. Salmon. It is an interest- 
ing geological and geographical account of the county of Surrey. 
The list of plants is very copious, and the arrangement and nomen- 
clature generally adopted are those of the fifth edition of the ‘ London 
Catalogue of British Plants.’ We should have preferred the plan of 
following some British Manual, and in this respect we think the plan 
of the Marlborough Flora the best. The notices of localities are very 
numerous, and the names of the specimens are at once guarantees of 
the accuracy of the observations. 
The most interesting parts of the volume to the general student 
will be found in the Appendices, of which there are four. In the 
first is given a list of plants introduced to the country, and not tho- 
roughly naturalized. The second contains a list of plants found on 
the Thames side, near Wandsworth and Battersea, and which are 
undoubtedly introduced plants from seed brought to this locality by 
the presence of a large distillery situated at the waterside. They 
nevertheless have their interest in showing how plants from distant 
