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observation of six years, exceeds any thing that had chaptei: 

 been presented by the most successful cultivators of the ^'^^i'- 

 same field during a wjiole lifetime. Much ligiit has American 

 been thrown on tlie migrations and relations of the ^' '°°^"S^' 

 indigenous tribes of America, their origin, languages, 

 and manners. Tlie Vues des CordilUeres et Monumens 

 (ies Peuples Indigenes de I'Amerique, 2 vols, folio, 

 published in 1811, contains tlie fruit of researclies into 

 the antiquities of Mexico and Peru, together with the 

 description of the more remarkable scenes of the Andes. 

 It has been translated into English by Mrs H. M. Wil- 

 liams. The animals observed have been described in a 

 work entitled Recueil d' Observations de Zoologie et d'Ana- 

 tomie Compuj-ees, faites dans un Voyage aux Tropiques, 

 2 vols. 4to. 



In the department of Botany the most important Botany 

 additions have been made to science. Our travellers 

 brought with them to Europe an herbarium consisting 

 of more than six thousand species of plants, and Bon- 

 pland's botanical journal contained descriptions of four 

 thousand. The valuable works on this subject, ihat 

 have appeared in consequence of the journey to America, 

 form a new era in the history of botany. They are as 

 follow : — 



1. Essai sur la Geographie des Plantes, ou 2'aWecm -^'orks on 

 Physique des Regions Equinoxiales, fonde sur des Obscr- f'e subject. 

 rations et des Mesures faites depuis le \Ome dcgre de 

 latitude australe, jusq^au lOme degre de latitude boreale. 



4to. 



2. Plantes Equinoxiales recueillies au Mexique, dans 

 File de Cuba, dans Ies Provinces de Caracas, de Cumana, 

 &c. 2 vols. fol. 



3. Monographie des Melastomes. 2 vols. fol. 



4. Graminees Rares de l' Amerique Equinoxiale. 1vol. 

 fol. 



5. Famille des Mimosas et autres Plantes Legumincuses, 

 1 vol. fol. 



6. Nova Genera et Species Planturuni. 7 vols, fol., 

 containing 700 plates ; with a Synopsis in 4 vols. 8vo. 



