310 Bibliography. 
8. Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests 
B. Emerson. Boston, 1846 
sion that the work is a model for a popular, and yet truly scientific, 
treatise upon trees and shrubs. The volume is replete with the most 
valuable information, obtained by the protracted personal observation 
research of a genuine lover of trees and plants, carefully digested, 
and presented in a form which, for the end in view, leaves nothing to 
be desired. . Gr. 
9. Botanical Magazine, for January, 1847.--Sir Wm. Hooker has 
devoted this number entirely to the illustration of the Victoria regia 
ral envelops. Sir Wm. Hooker has not been able to examine the fruit. 
e are curious to know whether the seeds have an arillus, like Nym- 
Perha 
and we may hope that Sir William may succeed in bringing the won- 
derful plant into flower. . GR. 
. realise on Algebra, containing the latest Improvements; 
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guage. The elementary principles are treated in a simple and easy 
style, and from these the student is conducted to the higher branches of 
riety of illustration and example; and from these, after a careful com- 
ison of many authors in each language, demonstrations have been 
selected and introduced verbatim when they seemed incapable of im- 
provement; but whenever the slightest alteration or amalgamation, or 
the entire remodeling of them, could give additional clearness OF ele- 
gance, the lime labor has not been spared.” For the convenience of 
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