408 REVIEWS, [January, 



Manuscript Magazine of the Glasgow Naturalists' Society. 

 No. 3, for July, 1862. 



Our excellent friend and correspondent Mr. " W. G." lias just 

 sent another volume or number of this singular, and pleasing, 

 and instructive miscellany. Tt has been read with delight, and 

 its varied contents will help to fill up several spare places in our 

 own publication. 



As has been already remarked, in reviewing the second num- 

 ber, it is not a fair subject for criticism, as it can only be seen 

 by a very small section of our readers, viz. those who dwell in 

 St. Mungo's diocese, the Barony, the Gorbals, the Goosedubs, 

 and other parts of the great western emporium. 



The contents of this number are multifarious, but all quite 

 appropriate, embracing some one or other of the branches of 

 natural history. 



The first article is a " Contribution towards a Flora of the 

 Counties of Tyrone, Londonderry, and Donegal." This is a 

 large subject, but the contribution towards its flora is a generous 

 one, between six and seven hundred species, — a good beginning. 

 Some of the plants are of great rarity, particularly Anemone 

 ranunculoides , Arenaria verna, Draba incana, Silene Armeria, 

 Erodium moschatum, Rosa cianamomea, R. hibernica, Saxifraga 

 umbrosa, Ligusticum scoticum, Hypochceris maculata, Crepis 

 biennis, Hieracium cerinthoides, Anchusa sempervirens, Veronica 

 peregrina, Polygonum Roberti (what is this?), Eujjhorbia hi- 

 berna, Potago^neton prcelongus, Adiantum Capillus-Vcneris, etc. 



Every botanist would enjoy a month's botanizing in the north- 

 west of Ireland in June and July, when the summer days are 

 long ; would they were aye fine ! It may be safely predicted 

 that the collecting boolis and boxes of a party of London bota- 

 nists would soon be filled with the productions of the rocky 

 shores of the Atlantic, and of the mountains, bogs, loughs, and 

 rivers, of Ould Ireland. 



The next article is a monograph of the British Titmice, with 

 an illustration. To this there follow in succession. Conglomerate 

 papers (geological), "On the Co?w/yaH/we Physiology of Diges- 

 tion." Is comparitive a slip — a lapsus calami — or a new mode of 

 spelling this word, which is from the Latin comparativus, from 



