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NEW PUBLICATION. 
Dottings on the Roadside in Nicaragua, Panamá, and Mosquito. By 
CAPTAIN BEDFORD Pim, R.N., and BERTHOLD SEEMANN, Ph.D., 
ete. With Plates and Maps. 8vo. 468 pp. London: Chapman 
and Hall. 
Although comments of any kind on this book—the first half of 
which was written by Dr. Seemann, the latter half by Captain Pim — 
cannot be looked for at this place, yet it may not be superfluous to 
note some of the contents as far as they may concern botany. 
The book opens with Dr. Seemann's visit to the Isthmus of Panamá 
in March, 1866, he having landed at Colon, on the Atlantic side. 
** Tt took four hours and a half to get across the isthmus, which to so 
my fellow-passengers seemed long ; but not so to me, who had SA € os 
the 
i there are very fine Am un 
gardens and neat white e "epe a cond contrast with the wretched 
seemed to e their feathery leaves in friendly recognition ; swe a of the 
trees old 
friends, oy 
The asc ot of Panama is very fine. In the savanas— 
“you have the most lovely park-like scenery in the ee utiful short 
grass, capital for oping upon, disapa of fine trees and shrubs, a gently- 
ground, little rivulets and now and then glimpses of the city, the 
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f th y fire, gives an excellent idea of 
thes and their vegetation ; and it is à ud one I have seen that 
edis ppm justice to the neighbourhood of Pana 
In this pieture there is a very good illustration of the growth of 
the singular Hederaceous tree Didymocarpus Morototoni, Dene. et PI. 
Embarking at Panamá on one of the steamers going up the jen 
coast of America, Dr. Seemann landed at Corinto (Realejo), 
prineipal port of Nicaragua, where he “ate a dish of bicis 
as a botanical curiosity," and thence travelling all night, partly by 
boat, and partly on muleback, he— 
* reached Leon at seven o'clock in r tired, and fou 
- the street thickly strewn with lupi mers e Cliguiccis, Oleanders, ni 
