1863.] REVIEWS. 409 



comjmro ? It is a freak of the index-maker ; on referring to p. 77, 

 the reader will see that the usual orthography has been adopted. 



Next there are " Rambles of a City Naturalist " (geological 

 and antiquarian), " Limnaea auricularia" (zoological), "Dredg- 

 ing Days/' " Mammon, Eros, and the Naturalist ; or, Catching a 

 Dryad." Some reader will think or say — What is this ? It 

 is, lector benevokntissime, a good-natured bantering article on 

 utilitarianism, or what some call practical philosophy, and others 

 the pleasant art of money-catching. The hero of this tale ran 

 away after a Dryad, and caught — what ? — not a Tartar, but some 

 rural or sylvan beauty, and was himself caught and carried off 

 by a stronger captor, better known by the common name of 

 Cupid than Eros. 



Three papers, named " Botanical Notes," follow the tale of 

 Cupid and his frisky captive. " A Visit to the Giant's Cansc- 

 way," "Catkin Braes" (botanical), "The Hydra Rock-Pools," 

 " Properties and Uses of the British Wild Plants," " Scientific 

 Memoranda of the past Half-year," " Chronicles of the Glasgow 

 Naturalists' Society," "Answers to Correspondents" fill up the 

 volume, or are the contents of this number of the manuscript 

 magazine. They are not wanting in variety, and they are all 

 replete with both interest and information, blended with some 

 humour. 



One article was accidentally omitted, viz. that on the " Origin 

 and Distribution of Plants," on vvhich a remark or two may be 

 hung, 7ion per collum, sed per occasionem. 



On this subject there are two questions which logicians call 

 two of the ten predicaments of the Stagyrite, viz. the quando and 

 the ubi ; when and where — neither of those categories has been 

 satisfactorily determined in the above science. The dispute about 

 specific centres and successive increasing distribution is prema- 

 ture. 



Consider the locus, or the word responding to the question 

 10 here ; give the geologist his myriads of ages for the dissemina- 

 tions and distributions of a few alpine species originally created 

 as individuals on Greenland's icy mountains, and which, by con- 

 tinuous migrations on floating icebergs, have been carried to 

 Scandinavia, Wales, Scotland, the Carpathian Mountains, the 

 Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalayas, the Andes, and nobody knows 

 how far : all this is possible, and what is assumed by these 



N.S. VOL. VI. 3 G 



