History of a Review of Smith's English Flora. 339 



more comprehensive system, which has led me to a direct and 

 complete integration of equations of differences of all orders 

 and degrees, and the numerical resolution of all algebraic equa- 

 tions. Indeed, I am not without hopes, from some ideas 

 which have lately occurred to me, that it will likewise ulti- 

 mately lead to the direct algebraic resolution of equations of 

 all degrees ; and if ever the thing is to be done to the complete 

 integration of differential equations, or show us what cases can, 

 and what can never, be integrated in finite terms. 



J. Hehapath. 



Errata in my last paper: Phil. Mag. for September 1824; 

 P. 198, 12 lines from bottom for . read , 



insert " is" after Mr. Herschel's. 



LVIII. Statement on the part of the Monthly Critical Gazette 

 respecting the Review of Sir J. E. Smith's Eriglish Flora 

 in that Publication. By A Correspondent. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal. 



Gentlemen, 



A Sa reader from its origin, and a frequent correspondent of 

 -^*- your valuable Magazine, and as one who has also read, and 

 felt a warm interest in behalf of a new Review which started in 

 June last, professing the novel and very useful design, of no- 

 ticing every British Publication, at the beginning of that month, 

 next but one after it first appears in the shop of a publisher; 

 I have been induced, by the notice you have taken, in pages 

 226 and 227 of your September Number, of a critique in the 

 first number of this Review, on the very able and important 

 work of Sir James E. Smith, his " English Flora" to request 

 your permission to state, that after having read Sir James's 

 work, and since carefully compared your comments with its 

 pages, I fully and most unequivocally concur in the justice and 

 propriety of your comments ; and the Editor of the Monthly 

 Critical Gazette after having made a like comparison, commis- 

 sions me to say the same for him ; except that we could have 

 wished the last paragraph, and particularly the four last lines, of 

 your comment had been somewhat more guardedly expressed ; 

 and so, as not to have overlooked the new and distinguishing 

 character of the Review in question, as standing pledged to 

 notice all the works of science as well as on other subjects : 

 because out of this pledge, under peculiar circumstances 

 U n 2 which 



