AMERICAN 
URNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] eae ge 
Art. I.—WNereis Boreali-Americana ; or Coprensons toa His- 
tory of the Marine Alg@ of North America ; by Wm. Henry - 
Harvey, M.D., &c.—Part I. Me: snows Washington, — 
~ Smi cramaaaie. 4 Institution. New York: G.P. Putnam. Jan., 1852. 
ras; is the first part of the work announced in our January 
number. It is a separate issue of a a ae (of _150 pages, with 
_ Smithsonian Contributes to Knobdige: "eae a welcome con- 
_ tribution it is, as well in its purely scientific arings, as on ac- 
count of the popular interest of the subject; and under both 
aspects well deserving the efficient furtherance of this admirably 
| eae institution, since the heavy outlay for the needful picto- 
rial: il ustration would deter any unaided author or publisher, 
a ‘ally interesting to the structural anatomist and 
m their consisting either of isolated cells or series 
23 lest combination, often of consid S 
rcu able to. 
s class of plants has at- 
tracted more popular interest perhaps than any other, at least 
in Great Britain, where their study has been encouraged and 
facilitated by the vario coi, aoe mt works a the — Dg 
> Senms, V Vol XIV, No. 4 0.—July, 1852. 
