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sent nature, it would be impossible to enter into a minute dis- 

 cussion of the accuracy of Sir James Smith's statement, — that his 

 published opinions, and those of M. du Petit Thouars are the 

 same. Fortunately, however, such a measure is unnecessary ; for 

 I have reason to think that when Sir James Smith is informed 

 that all the Linnean botanists, and many even of those who 

 profess other things in France, the Thouins, Lefebures, Fe- 

 buriers, Berneauds, and other equally celebrated men, are 

 violently opposed to M. du Petit Thouars, he will consider 

 whether he may not have been too hasty in identifying himself 

 with the heterodox opinions of my friend. 



To the latter part of Sir James Smith's letter I do not feel 

 it necessary to reply. The complaint that I had overlooked 

 in the preface to my little translation of the late M. Richard's 

 admirable treatise upon fruits and seeds, all that the Linnean 

 school of botany had been doing for thirty years before, must 

 have arisen out of a misconception of my meaning, or from 

 some ambiguity of expression on my part. I said that with 

 reference to the subject of the work in'question, that is, of fruits 

 and seeds, nothing had been done in the form of an elemen- 

 tary work. For the truth of such a statement, I appeal to the 

 world. 



I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, 

 Turnham Green, Nov. 4, 1824. J OHN Lindley. 



LXXXI. Not ices respecting New Booh. 



Recently published. 



r I^HE Geological Society has just published a Half-volume 

 ■*■ of Transactions, being Part II. of Volume I. of the Se- 

 cond Series. It contains the following papers : 



Notes on the Geography and Geology of Lake Huron ; by 

 John J.Big^by, M.D. — Observations on the South-western Coal 

 District of England ; by the Rev. W. Buckland, and the Rev. 

 W. D. Conybeare. — Geological Observations on Part of Glou- 

 cestershire :iii(l Somersetshire; by Thomas Weaver, Esq. — 

 Extracts from a paper entitled, " Remarks on the Strata at 

 Stinclicombe near Dursley, in Gloucestershire ;" by George 

 Cumberland, Esq. — On the Crag Strata at Bremerton, near 

 Norwich ; by Richard Taylor, Esq. of Norwich. — On the 

 Alluvial Strata and on the Chalk of Norfolk and Suffolk, and 

 on the Fossils by which they are accompanied ; by Richard 

 Taylor, Esq. of Norwich. — On the Strata observed in boring 

 at Mildenhall, Suffolk : extracted from a letter addressed to 



Vol.64. No. 320. Dec. J 824. 3 M \V. Somer- 



