138 REVIEWS. 
In reviewing the Algze collected in this tour, not the least im- 
teresting feature is the comparison of the connecting links which 
may be traced, showing affinity with the vegetation of other 
coasts. Twenty-seven species, common both to the British Is- 
lands and Western Australia, have been observed by Dr. Harvey ; 
for an enumeration of these, as well as those which associate this 
very rich marine flora with other lands, we must refer our readers 
to the pages of a memoir which, like everything that has issued 
from the same pen, will be gladly received by all who feel an in- 
terest in the subject of which it treats. Our regret at the brief 
way some points are touched upon is, however, removed by the 
promise of copious descriptions, and a fuller memoir, on its au- 
thor’s return to Europe, when we hope to call our readers’ atten- 
tion to the result of his labours. | 
Notes on Books. No. I. May 81, 1855. London: Messrs. 
Longman and Co. 
In this periodical, which is exclusively confined to Messrs. 
Longman and Co.’s publications, there is a very satisfactory 
analysis of about fifty works (critical opinions and laudatory 
notices are excluded). 'The only work bearing on British Botany 
is Wilson’s ‘ Bryologia;’ and the notice merely states that the 
original work, ‘ Muscologia Britannica,’ of Messrs. Hooker and 
Taylor, has been thoroughly revised and considerably enlarged 
by Mr. Wilson, the president of the Warrington Natural History 
Society. The plates have been corrected, and additional plates 
added. 
In this number the publication of the Supplement to Loudon’s 
encyclopedia of Plants is also announced. 
The Educational Expositor. Edited by T. Tarn, F.R.A.S., and 
J. 'Trrtarp, F.R.G.S. Now the recognized Organ of the United 
Association of Schoolmasters. London: Longman and Co. 
The August number of this periodical contains a Lecture on 
teaching Botany in schools, by one of our correspondents ; and on 
this subject, and on the lecture itself, we have a few remarks to 
make. In the first place, we may say that there is no science so 
