

THE 



AMERICAN 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS 





[SECOND SERIES.] 



Art. XII. — Notice of Dr. Hookefs Flora Antarctica ;* by Prof. 



Asa Gray. 



The Botany of Capt. Ross's Antarctic voyage of Exploration 

 was announced to be published in two departments, viz., the Aus- 

 tralian and New Zealand portion, which is still delayed, and the 

 Antarctic Flora, which is now before us. The concluding fas- 

 ciculus of this elaborate and highly beautiful work, — second in 

 importance and in perfection of illustration, to no other Flora 

 which has appeared in our time, — was issued a little more than a 

 year ago; since which the indefatigable author has been gather- 

 ing new laurels (literally new Rhododendrons by the dozen) upon 

 the Himalayas, and is probably at this time exploring, with undi- 

 minished ardor, the luxuriant and entirely novel vegetation of 

 Borneo. The patronage of the British government to the publi- 

 cation was bestowed in the form of a handsome grant from the 

 Treasury, which has enabled the publishers to bring out the nu- 

 merous plates in the highest style of the art, and to afford even 

 the colored copies at a very moderate price indeed. 



The materials elaborated in the Flora Antarctica consist not 

 J»*y of the full collections made during this voyage, by Dr. 

 Hooker himself, and by the officers of the expedition, from the 



The Botany of the Antarctic voyage of & U. JHi ji ships S im a I Ter* 

 win the years*! 1-1843 under the command of Capt. Sir Jamea Clark Ross, 



P Yr T * y JosKPB Daltox H , KKR? M.D.. RX. MLS* A&, Botanist to the Expedition. 



1 ubhsiied under the auiho y of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Lou- 

 doa Keeves, Brothers, 1845-7. Two vol* 4 to, with 198 plates. 



Si mm Sbrils. Vol. VIII, ffo. 23.— Sept., 1849. 21 



