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11 CONTENTS. 



tracta Ordinum, Generum, specierumque Plantarum hue 

 usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas diges- 

 ta, 198. — Walpers's Repertorium Botanices Systematica : 

 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 Illustrata : Crania iEgyptica, or Observa- 

 tions on Egyptian Ethnography, derived from Anatomy, 



History 



Ehrenberg's Re- 



searches on the Distribution of Microscopic Life, 208. 



Chemical 



tural, 21 L 



Miscellanies. — 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. 



ERRATA. 



Page 105, bottom line, for " baryta 72" read * 76." 

 " 187, line 13 from top, for " Progree" read " Progres." 

 " 208, line 13 from bottom, for " xvi" read " xlvi." 



THE PORTRAIT OF Mr. MACLURE, 



Provided by the liberality of his brother, and intended for this numher in illus- 

 tration of the memoir herewith published, could not be got ready, and after wait- 

 ing for it beyond the usual publication day, we are reluctantly obliged to postpone 

 it to our next. 



The Binder will observe that it is to be the frontispiece of this volume. 



