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NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE, 



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REEVE AND CO., 



5, HENRIETTA STREET, COYENT GARDEN. 



BOTANY. I 



THE YICTORIA KEGIA. By Sir W. J. Hooker, F.K.S. In j 



elephant folio. Illustrated on a large scale by W. Fitch. ; 



3l5. Qd. " \ 



The work on the Eoyal Water Lily contains four plates of very \ 



large size, expensively coloui*ed, illustrative of the different stages of s 



flowering and fi-uiting, with analyses of structure, as follows: — ; 



1. A view of the entu-e plant, flower, fruit, and leaves, on the \ 



water. ; 



2. A flower of the natural size in progress of expanding, together \ 



with as much of the enormous foliage as the broad dimen- ; 



sions of the paper will admit. 



2>. A fully expanded flower of tJie natural size, with foliage, kc. \ 



4. A vertical section of the fuUy developed flower, with various ; 



dissections and analyses. \ 



" Although many works have been devoted to the illustration and description > 



of the Victoria regia, it seemed still to want one which, whilst it gave an accu- \ 



rate botanical description of the plant, should at the same time show the natural s 



size of its gigantic flowers. This object has been aimed at by the combined la- ^ 



boui-s of sV^y. Hooker and Mr. Fitch, and with distinguished success. The \ 



illustrations are everything that coidd be desired in the shape of botanical \ 



drawings. They are accurate, and they are beautiful." — Athenaum. \ 



THE EHODODENDEONS OE SIKKIM-HDLVLAYA. With 

 drawings and descriptions made on the spot. By J. D. 

 Hooker, M.D., F.K.S. Edited by Sir W. J. Hooker, 

 D.C.L., E.E.S. In handsome imperial folio, w"th thirty co- 

 lom'ed plates. Price 3/. lis. 

 " In this work we have the fii'st results of Dr. Hooker's botanical mission 

 to India. The announcement is calculated to startle some of om- readers when 

 they know that it was only last January- twelvemonths that the Doctor arrived 

 in Calcutta. That he should have ascended the Himalaya, discovered a num- 

 ber of plants, and that they should be pubUshed in England in an almost 



