Bibliographical Notices. 301 



(No. 15. t. 1, 2.). — Botanical Information : Botanical Letters frona 

 Dr. Hortmann in Surinam (No. 11.) ; also from Mr. Drummond in 

 New Holland (No. 12.), and extracts from M. Boissier's Spanish 

 Botany (No. 12.) ; Notice of Le Conte Jaubert and M. Spach's lUus- 

 tratioiies Plantarum Orientalium ; Mr. H. C. Watson's geographical 

 distribution of British Plants, third edition ; and of the Rev. J. E. 

 Leefe's ' Salictum Britannicum Exsiccatum' (No, 15.). — Botanical 

 Collections noticed : China, South Africa, Caucasus, Swan River 

 (No. 15.). 



Salictum Britannicum Exsiccatum. Fasc. I. 

 By the Rev. J. E. Leefe, M.A. 



In a former number of the 'Annals' we announced that a work 

 under the above title was in preparation, and we have now the plea- 

 sure of informing our readers that the first fasciculus has reached us. 

 We beg to recommend the collection most strongly ; the specimens 

 are ample, in good preservation, and very complete ; and the notes 

 appended to them are usually of considerable value. Great addi- 

 tional interest is given to these specimens by their having been in- 

 spected, and the nomenclature authenticated, by Mr. Borrer, whose 

 acquaintance with willows generally, and particularly those of Bri- 

 tain, is probably unequalled. We hear that the great labour and 

 amount of time which the preparation of this fasciculus has required 

 causes Mr. Leefe to have considerable doubt of being able to con- 

 tinue the publication, but we earnestly hope and expect that this 

 part will be so well received by botanists as to cause him to come to 

 a dilFerent determination. Owing to some accident the author has 

 not appended his name to the collection, nor named any publisher, we 

 therefore think it right to add his name and address, viz. " Rev. J. 

 E. Leefe, Sigston, North Allerton, Yorkshire." We believe that 

 the collection may be procured from Messrs. W^hittaker and Co., Lon- 

 don, and recommend an early application, as very few copies were 

 prepared. The price is extremely moderate. 



PfiEPARING FOR PUBLICATION. 



Mr. Hassall informs us that he has long been collecting materials 

 for a History of the British Freshwater Algffi. Mr. Hassall states, 

 that should any botanists be desirous of investigating those species 

 which occur in their own neighbourhoods, he will have much plea- 

 sure in assisting them in the determination of those species, which 

 plan he hopes may conduce much to the completeness of the work. 



The simplest mode of transmission, he states, is to place a frag- 

 ment of each species in a piece of moistened linen, and to enclose a 

 number of such packages in an envelope of tin-foil. 



Illustrations of Indian Ornithology ; a series of fifty coloured Litho- 

 graphic Drawings of Indian Birds, accompanied by descriptive Letter- 

 press. By T. C. Jerdon, Assistant- Surgeon, Madras Medical 

 Establishment. 



The original drawings have been executed by native artists, from 

 pencil sketches by the author, and under his immediate superintend- 



