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natural history has been urged more than once in these pages ; 

 and, it is to be hoped, not without some good consequences. If 

 the numerous contributions to this Journal have had any hand 

 in effecting this good work, we are thankful ; and at all events 

 the merit of good intentions, and that of being well-wishers to 

 the diffusion of knowledge and to the progress of humanity, may 

 safely be claimed. 



The contents of the manuscript publication (if the term be ad- 

 missible) placed at the head of this article are multifarious ; for 

 example, "Incidents of an Arctic Voyage, on the Gorilla, on 

 Geology, Zoology, Muscology, Entomology, Botany, Chemistry, 

 Biography, Poetry, on Current Literature," etc. etc. 



The work, which consists of nearly three hundred post-octavo 

 pages, is entirely in the autographs of the respective authors, and 

 several of the articles are well illustrated with original drawings, 

 or cuts of the objects described. 



A cursory notice of the botanical articles is all that we can 

 afford to enter in the ' Phytologist.' There is no room for criti- 

 cism, and if there were it would be out of place ; as the work 

 cannot be read by the majority of our readers, they could have no 

 means of judging about the fairness of our critique. 



The first botanical essay is on British Bryology; and as it is 

 purely elementary, it needs only to be said that the brevity and 

 clearness of its descriptions are commendable. 



" Addenda to the British Flora" is a paper on the localities of 

 some species only recently admitted into our national botanical 

 works. Lilium Martagon has been detected in the woods of Ash- 

 brook, in the parish of Clondermott, in the county of London- 

 derry. A note in Dr. Mackay's ' Flora Hibernica' told the 

 fortunate observer that it had previously been seen in the same 

 locahty by W. Lawers, Esq., now deceased. 



Veronica peregrina was recorded some years ago by the Rev. 

 W. M. Hind ; and this species, now no novelty to our British 

 floras, has been discovered in a new locality, and reported for the 

 first time as a rather common agrarial and roadside species. 

 Our author (see MS. Mag. p. 124), states, " We found it grow- 

 ing abundantly in the Londonderry Infirmary grounds, and in 

 parts adjoining the Model School, as a weed of cultivation, along 

 with Euphorbia Peplus, Senecio vulgaris, Sonckus okraceus, etc." 



To the description and history of this fresh importation there 



