and the transactions of societies, or existing in the form of separate 
monographs, all difficult of access—certainly beyond the means of 
most students, and nowhere perhaps to be found in any one collection. 
He has simplified the synonymy, which in certain departments was 
peculiarly complex, and given to the nomenclature an ‘accuracy of 
orthography and accent, which is the more creditable, inasmuch as it is 
so rarely found in American scientific works.. ‘The accomplished con- 
ductor of the Cambridge press | has won for himself an enviable reputa- 
tion for class e mechanical details of typographic 
execution that press has’ long —e ‘unsurpassed, 
Prof. Dewey, in his report on the eine flowering p 
of Museathiusetth has endeavored, as far as was practicable cas 
too great a’sacrifice of scientific accuracy, to adapt his labors to the 
comprehension and use of those who were not particularly scientific. 
With ‘this-view, the economical value, the properties and uses of all 
pounded and made plain. ‘The arrangement is mostly in accordance 
with the orders of Lindley, with a blending of the artificial classifica- 
tion of Linnzus. Prof. Dewey is well known to all readers of” this 
Journal, more particularly in the earlier volumes, by his n 
valuable papers on the Carices of North America: The report is such 
as might have been expected, from the _ — sae of the 
excellent author. tie 
The report of Prof.. Emmons on she andrei is or ae 
short, since the small number of genera which fall within so narrow 
a territory as Massachusetts, leaves but little room for expansion. This 
report, although not equal to the purposes of a thorough natural- 
ist, is yet good of its kind, and fully sufficient for the use intended. 
Forty three species of quadrupeds are given as inhabiting Massa- 
chusetts ; these fall into the orders, Carnivora, Rodentia, and Ruminan- 
tia, and are grouped into twelve natural families, as follows :—Bats, 
three ; Shrew mole, one; Common molé, three; Urside, two; Can- 
ide, three ; Felide, three; Mustelide, evade! feernapecinctuaings the 
skunk,) seven; Castoride, two; Leporide, two; Muscide, fourteen ; 
, one ; Cervide, three. The reindeer is also given, on the 
rather iaaphobablé supposition of its having once appeared as a winter 
Visitant ; moose-deer have not been seen in Massachusetts within the 
past forty years—they are still hunted in the northern parts of New — 
England, and in Pennsylvania, between the branches of the Susque- 
hanna. We cannot but regret that this report is unaccompanied by 
figures of the animals described ; the species are so few that it might 
have been done with comparative ease, and would have greatly en- 
hanced the value of the work in the estimation of students. 
