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Physical causes on the Languages, Mythology, and Early Litera- 

 ture of Mankind." This, though an interesting subject to the 

 Editor, might be caviare to some of the readers of the periodical 

 with which he is concerned, and it is, like the other subjects of 

 this learned Register — we may not call it a Review — out of our 

 line. Our readers are merely told that there is good reading in 

 the 'Atlantis,' and this is honestly done on the crede experto 

 principle : we have read it, and ,.cau safely recommend it. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



Botanical Pekiodicals. 

 {From the ' Gardeners' Chronicle .') 



" We learn with great regret that Sir W. Hooker's ' Journal of Botany ' 

 has ceased to appear. Under one form or other our learned friend's 

 scientific correspondence has been given to the public ever since the year 

 1827, and we fear that the loss of it will be felt too soon. Nor Indeed, 

 with the exception of the ' Journal of the Linnaean Society ' and ' Taylor's 

 Annals of Natural History,' does there now remain any English medium 

 through which short papers on Systematic Botany can be communicated 

 to the public." 



To deliver him (the editor) out of this mentis ffratissimus error, I take 

 the liberty of advising the Editor or the Publisher of this periodical to send 

 the copy of the ' Phytologist ' containing this short note to the editor of 

 the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ;' with the following intimation, viz. that there 

 has been a publication issued montlily, at a moderate price, during the 

 last sixteen years, with the exception of about eight or nine months, 

 when it was in abeyance in consequence of the death of its editor ; that 

 this publication was established solely for giving publicity to botanical 

 facts, and for the preservation of short papers on structural, physiological, 

 and systematic botany; that 5,640 pages of this work are before the 

 public, and that a complete index to the 1st Series has been prepared, 

 published, and circulated gratis among the subscribers to the present 

 Series, which enumerates among its contributors the most eminent British 

 botanists. And the learned and scientific gentleman should be reminded 

 that he did not read over the last number of the ' Kew Miscellany ' veiy 

 carefully, or he would have seen that the amiable author of that and of 

 many other estimable works was not ashamed to recognize the medium 

 above mentioned, but further condescended to say a kind word in behalf 

 of the 'Phytologist.' Fair Play. 



Streatley Chalk. 



In the November number of the ' Phytologist ' last year (1857), a ques- 

 tion was asked, " What kind of Chalk, lower, middle, or upper, crops out 



