612 Lilerarij Xvlices. 



the Year 1836, with some remarks and corrections, which we shall 

 elsewhere make use of. 



Sechtes Preiss-VerzeicJniiss der verschiedenenfcinen Ta/ds Obsisor- 

 ten, Geholze fur Garten- Anlagen, Ge-Jcachshmis-PJlanzeJii Sfc, 

 fur 1837-8, tvelche bei S. tmd J. liitiz, Kiinst 7ind Handels- 

 Gurtner in Frankfurt am Main, zu haben sind : that is, The 

 Sixth priced Catalogue of Fruit Trees, Ornamental and Use- 

 ful Plants, &c., propagated and sold by S. and J. Rinz, Nur- 

 serymen, Frankfort on the Maine. 8vo, pp. 31. Frankfort, 

 1837. 



Verzeichniss der Grii7iJunis-Pfanzcn dcs Freyherrn Carl vo?i 

 Hiigel, No. IX. Catalogue of Green-house Plants, cultivated 

 in the garden of Baron Hiigel, at Hietzing, near Vienna ; with 

 the prices indicated at which they will be sold or exchanged. 

 Pamph. 8vo, 46 pages. Vienna, 1837. 



Art. VIII. Literary Notices. 



Koll^r's History of the Insects injur iotis to Gardejieis and 

 Farmers is translated, and will be put to press before this notice 

 sees the light. 



Essays on 'Natural History (in which the habits of various birds 

 injurious to gardens are noticed), by Charles Waterton, Esq., 

 will appear about Christmas. 



The Rose Amateur's Guide, by T. Rivers, jun., including plans 

 for rosariums, will shortly be put to press, and will, we have no 

 doubt, prove an excellent work. 



A Treatise on the Concentration of the Sun's Jiays, as applied 

 to Horticulture and Agriculture, by Robert Gauen, is in the press, 

 and will shortly be published by subscription. 



A botanical periodical, by Baron Hiigel, somewhat in the 

 manner of the Botanical Register, but with definite side-headings 

 for geography, history, year of introduction, propagation, culture, 

 &c., as in Willdenow's Abbildung, and Maund's Botanist ; im- 

 provements which we have many years ago stated are greatly 

 wanted for the Botanical Register and the Botanical Magazine. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Anx. I. General Notices. 



What is Science ? " Is it something," as Aristotle has it, " which we know," in 

 contradistinction to art, " which is something which we do ? " Does true science 

 consist, as Bacon declares, in " the knowledge of facts ?" Then statistics is a 

 science. It possesses the five constituent elements of a science, as enumerated 

 by the French ideologists ; namely, Facts, Nomenclature, Systematic Classifica- 



