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 Notices of Botanical Periodicals, Sfc. 



^ Neue AUgemeine Deutsche Garten und Blumenzeituny, rediyirt von 

 Eduard Otto. Siebenter Jahrgang. 8vo. Hamburg: 1851.' 



Such is the title of a magazine which, though mainly devoted to 

 horticulture, contains a great amount of botanical information, includ- 

 ing selections from the best foreign authors, and contributions by 

 Lehmann, Nees von Esenbeck, Reichenbach, Romer, Steetz, and 

 others. Distinguished as a traveller in tropical America, and well 

 known as a succesful cultivator of plants in the capacity of Curator of 

 the Botanic Garden at Hamburg, M. Edward Otto, like his illustrious 

 father, is eminently qualified to exercise the office of editor. From 

 the time that M. E. Otto has undertaken the chief management, the 

 journal, from being a mere local paper of wo influence or importance, 

 has become one of the best periodicals in Northern Germany ; and 

 many of the minor publications, as well as those enjoying a wider 

 circulation, are constantly filling their columns with extracts from it. 

 A peculiar feature of the paper is its " feuilleton," containing a mass 

 of personal news, the doings of eminent men, reports of learned so- 

 cieties, &c., a species of journalism hitherto sadly neglected. Botanists 

 of one country are mostly ignorant of what is doing in othei's; and 

 writers frequently treat a subject as something new and original, when, 

 indeed, they are only repeating what has already become a matter of 

 history in the territories of their neighbours. To those, therefore, who 

 are eager to know more than what happens at home, we strongly re- 

 commend this journal, which, we sincerely hope, will meet with aH 



the success it deserves. 



X. Y. Z. 



' Tlie Annals and Magazine of Natural History^ No. 49, January^ 



1852. 



The botanical paper in this number is intituled : — 



' Notice of a New British Viola ; by Charles C. Babington, M.A., 



F.R.S.' 

 The details of this paper were given in our January number (Phy- 



tol. iv. 424). 



