NEW HOLLAND IN EUROPE. 39 
suspended, dorsal. The quantity of albumen is not large as the embi-jo 
is not slender, so that tliis character would not offer any material diffi- 
culty in compai'iug the seed witli those of the families referred to. 
NEW HOLLAND IN EUROPE. 
^. Lecture delivered by Dr. E. Unger, Professor of 
Botany in the Vienna University. 
[In presenting this second important lecture of Professor Linger, 
translated from his ' Neu Holland in Europa' (8vo, Wien, Braunmullcr), 
by the kind permission of the pu!)lisher, we have to offer our best 
thanks to Professor Unger and Chevalier Auer, the Director of the Im- 
perial Printing Office, of Vienna, for the woodcuts and electrotypes by 
which it is illustrated. — Ed.] 
New Holland and Europe— wliat fi contrast! The former, an island 
in the uttermost corner of the earth, the latter, an integral pnrt of a 
great, though much indented continent ; the one in the south of our 
globe, the otlier in -its antipodes in the north. But there are other 
contrasts yet. Amongst the countries and peoples of the world, New 
Holland ranks the lowest, Europe the highest. There nature is yet in 
her cradle, man scarcely distinguishable from the wild beasts; here 
is displayed the whole wealth of development, and mankind ai-rived 
at the highest state of cultivation, customs and speech ; finally, there 
histoiy is still an unwritten page, here a volume of joyful and sorrow- 
ful events, most honourable, ou the one hand, most disgraceful to our 
race on the other. But enough of such antitheses. My introductoiy 
remarks were intended merely to show what disparity of things, what 
apparently irreconcilable contrasts are here united, ere I proceed to 
prove that New Holland exercised a decided influence on the formation 
of our much favoured continent, and, paradoxical as it may sound, con- 
tributed to make it what it is. My object in choosing " >rew Holland 
in Europe" for my theme was not to show how intimate is the inter- 
course sprung up between the two continents since the latter was dis- 
covered, how its numerous productions have raised it in our apprecia- 
tion, or how intimate is the net woven by commerce and navigation 
