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readers who would be inclined to see in these revolutions a serious 

 confusion of nature, or might fear that as the races gradually appro- 

 priated each other's peculiar possessions, the globe would approach 

 nearer and nearer to a tiresome uniformit}'. One sometimes hears 

 expressions which indicate such a fear ; complaints are now and then 

 made, that interesting descriptions of strongly contrasted races become 

 rarer in accounts of voyages and travels. Not only have many diffe- 

 rences vanished in Europe, so that, for instance, in a drawing-room 

 in Moscow one can fancy himself in Paris ; but those attractive 

 accounts of the natives of the South Sea Islands which the earlier 

 circumnavigators gave us, are exchanged for reports of how the 

 inhabitants of these islands now go clothed in the European fashion, 

 build ships, establish schools for mutual instruction, and build 

 churches. High up in the Himalayas, 7,000 feet above the sea, 

 where a few years since a wild race dwelt, only visited by tired 

 pedestrian Hindoo pilgrims, there are now, as Jacquemont reports, 

 the baths of Simla, with sixty European houses, where people in 

 shoes and silk stockings ride in European equipages to a dinner- 

 party, served in the European fashion, where champagne and Rhe- 

 nish wines are drunk. In Australia, where not long ago nature existed 

 in virgin condition, and the savages stood at the lowest point, where 

 a few suspended branches served to protect from the weather human 

 beings who lived on sea-mollusks, there exist at present European 

 cities, with hotels, coffee-houses, billiard-rooms, reading-rooms, and 

 horse-races." 



In conclusion, we have only to say that we cordially recommend 

 this delightful book to the readers of the ' Phytologist,' and beg to 

 assure them that no fear of the exclusives need alloy the pleasure 

 with which they will peruse it. 



* Principles of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Vegetable Cell. 

 By Hugo von Mohl. Translated by Arthur Henfrey. 

 London : Van Voorst. 1852.' 



This work, as appears from the author's Preface, which we have 

 quoted entire, originally appeared as an article in Wagner's ' Cyclo- 

 paedia of Physiology.' It is almost universally regarded as the highest 

 authority on the subject of which it treats, the qualifying word, " al- 

 most," being required by the dissentient voices of some of the followers 

 of Schleiden. The author writes throughout rather as a man who has 



