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XIV. Bibliographical Notices :— De Candolle's Prodromus sys- 



tematis naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, sive Enumeratio con- 

 tracta Ordinum, Generum, specierumque Plantarum hue 

 usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas diges- 

 ta, 198.— Walpers's Repertorium Botanices Systematic® : 

 Kunth's Enumeratio Plantarum omnium hucusque cogni- 

 tarum, secundum Familias Naturales disposita, 200. 

 Endlicher's Mantissa Botanica, sistens Generum Planta- 

 rum Supplementum Tertium, 201.— The Botany of the 

 Voyage of H. M. ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-42, 

 202.— Fielding's Sertum Plantarum, or Drawings and 

 Descriptions of Rare or Undescribed Plants, from the 

 author's Herbarium: Jussieu's Cours elementaire de 

 Botanique, 204.— Jahresbericht iiber die Arbeiten fur 

 Physiologische Botanik im Jahre, 1841 : Anatomia Plan- 

 tarum Iconibus Illustrate : Crania ^gyptiaca, or Observa- 

 tions on Egyptian Ethnography, derived from Anatomy, 

 History, and the Monuments, 205.— Ehrenberg's Re- 

 searches on the Distribution of Microscopic Life, 208. 



Bigg's Experimental Researches, Chemical and Agricul- 

 tural, 211. 



MiscELLA N iEs.-Notes on the Cretaceous Strata of New Jersey 

 and parts of the United States bordering the Atlantic, 213- 

 On the probable age and origin of a bed of Plumbago and 

 Anthracite occurring in mica schist near Worcester, Mass., 

 214.-Hydrous Borate of Lime : Anatase, 215._Pennine : 

 Talc : Dioptase : Beaumontite, 216—Sismondine, a new min- 

 eral : Description by Captains Cook and Flinders of Birds' 

 Nests of enormous size on the coast of New Holland, 217. 

 Festival in honor of Berzelius, 218. 



NUMBER II. 



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