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No. 74. Original Papers : " Contributions to the Botany of South 

 America;" by John Miers, Esq. " Prodromus Monographiae Ficuurn; 1 ' 

 by Prof. F. A. W. Miquel. " Contributions towards a Flora of Brazil ;" 

 by G. Gardner, Esq. "Brief characters of Aulacopilum ;" by W. 

 Wilson, Esq. " Further remarks on the Pollen-collectors of Cam- 

 panula ; " by W. Wilson, Esq. Botanical Information : Dr. Thom- 

 son's ' Scientific Mission to Thibet.' Notices of Books : Presl's 

 ' Botanische Bermerkungeu.' ' Botanical Labels for the Herbarium.' 

 Gottsche, Lindenberg, and Nees ab Esenbeck's ' Synopsis Hepati- 

 carum.' De Candolle's ' Notices sur les Plantes rares cultivees dans 

 le Jardin Botanique de Geneve.' Schnizlein's ' Iconographia Famili- 

 arum Naturalium Regni Vegetabilis.' Dunal's ' Petit Bouquet Medi- 

 terranean.' 



No. 75. Original Papers : " Prodromus Monographiae Ficuum ; " 

 by Prof. F. A. W. Miquel. " Contributions to the Flora of Guiana ; " 

 by George Bentham, Esq. " Notes and Observations on the Botany, 

 Weather, &c, of the United States;" by Dr. W. A. Bromfield. 

 Botanical Information : Borgeau's ' Plants of the Spanish Pyrenees.' 

 ' Plants of Canara,' distributed by M. Hochstetter. Death of Dr. 

 Thomas Taylor. Dr. Harvey's Appointment to the Chair of Botany 

 in the Dublin Institution. Notices of Books: Gasparrini's 'Recher- 

 chi sulla Natura del Caprifici e del Fici,' &c. 



As no Number of the 'London Journal of Botany ' was published 

 on the First of January, a report found ready credence that it had 

 been discontinued for want of sufficient support, as happened at the 

 same time with the ' Botanical Register.' We are happy to see that 

 the report was only partially correct ; Messrs. Reeve, Benham, and 

 Reeve becoming its publishers (and, we presume, proprietors) in place 

 of M. Bailliere, in whose hands it had remained since the addition of 

 the word "London" to its title. We should be glad to learn that its 

 circulation increased with the change of publishers and a slight in- 

 ternal change of arrangement ; though we fear this will not be the case 

 to any really profitable extent. A journal which is devoted to a single 

 department of science, and independently of its applications to the 

 arts and professions of daily life, addresses only a very small section 

 of the public. And if the plan of the journal be such as to render it 

 necessary or interesting to only a sub-section of that small section, 

 the proprietor must make up his mind to find few purchasers, and 

 editor and contributors must be satisfied with few readers. Such we 

 believe to be the present position of the 'London Journal of Botany.' 

 The science of which it treats, when disconnected from the arts of 



