454 B ib liograp hy. 



travellers, from Mount Atlas in the west to the chain of Taurus and 

 Altai in the east, we may fairly infer that the same species reaches the 

 Himalaya range, and stretches as far as Kamaon. A. Gr. 



3. Posthumous Papers, bequeathed to the Hon. East India Company 

 by the late Wm. Griffith, F.L.S., &c., and printed by order of the 

 government of Bengal. — To botanists there is no need of speaking of 

 the loss which science has sustained in the death of Wm. Griffith in 

 early manhood, in the midst of a career, which, with his excellent op- 

 portunities, improved to the utmost by his extraordinary talents and 

 industry, was confidently expected to furnish the most important con- 

 tributions of the age to the advancement of vegetable anatomy and 

 morphology. Had he even survived to prepare for the press the notes 

 and drawings which embody the results of the researches he had 

 already made, these would have had a great influence upon the science. 

 These unfinished materials, with his collections, were bequeathed to 

 the East India Company ; the directors of which have caused them 

 to be printed, and a portion of the edition to be distributed among the 

 botanists who are likely to be most benefited by them. The printing is 

 now going on, at Calcutta, under the editorial direction of Dr. John 

 McClelland. 



The portion which we have received was printed in 1847, and con- 

 sists of, 1st. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Afghan- 

 istan, and the neighboring countries ; in an 8vo volume of 529 pages, 

 with numerous sketches on stone and a lithographed portrait of Mr. 

 Griffith. 2d. No tula ad Plant as Asiaticas : Parti. Development of 

 Organs in Phanerogamous Plants, pp. 255, 8vo ; with an Atlas of 62 

 large quarto plates, filled with microscopic details, of the highest in- 



terest. 



A. Gr. 



4. Bibliographia Zoologice et Geologies, fyc. ; by Prof. L. Agassiz. 

 Corrected, enlarged and edited by H. E. Strickland. Vol. 1, 1848, 

 pp. 506. Containing the Periodicals, and Alphabetical list of authors 

 for A. and B. Published by the Ray Society. — This work, the result 

 of many years laborious research, is in course of publication, under the 

 auspices of the Ray Society. The former edition in large folio was 

 printed only for private distribution. The Jirst part of the volume just 

 issued, extending to 85 pages exclusive of the preface, is devoted to a 

 list of periodicals and cyclopedias, of which nearly 500 are catalogued, 

 with the date, place of publication, and number of volumes. Under 

 Africa two are cited ; Asia 14; Australia 2 ; New York 12; Philadel- 

 phia 13 ; London 82 ; Madrid 4 ; Lisbon 3 ; Venice It ; Turin 24 ; 

 Pisa 8; Naples 15; Padua 11; Milan 26; Lausanne 9; Geneva 6; 

 Berne 15; Paris 84; Lyons 12; Caen 10; Brussels 16; Prague 11; 

 Niirnberg 19; Leipzig 45; Halle 15; Berlin 50; Amsterdam 18; 

 St. Petersburg 19; Moscow 9 ; Copenhagen 26. This will afford an 

 idea of the fullness of this portion of the work. 



The second part commences with the name of Aalborg, who pub- 

 lished two works on bees at Copenhagen in 1639-42. Agassiz himself 

 has a list of 81 works or papers, the first of which bears the date of 

 1828, and some of his latest contributions have not been included. 

 Audouin is cited for 73 works, papers, &c. ; Audubon 11; Bachman 

 6 ; J, W. Bailey 7 ; D. W. Barnes 3 : H. Barnes 4 ; B. S. Barton 17 } 



