190 Bibliography. 
however, the omission of any thing of proper botanical interest. The 
whole number of pages has been increased in this edition, about one 
quarter, and the wood cuts, which are all remarkably clear and well 
printed, have been more than doubled in number. The volume isa 
beautiful one in its typography and general appearance, and of the 
highest order of scientific merit. While sufficiently complete for the 
wiliontigell student in the science, it is at the same time assimple and 
perspicuous as can be required by the beginner. 
16. A Class Book of Botany, designed for Colleges, Academies and 
other Seminaries. In two Parts: PartI. The Elements of Botanical 
Science. Part Il. The Natural Orders, illustrated by a Flora of the 
northern Uninted States, particularly New England and New York. 
By AtrHonso Woop, A. M., Associate Principal in Kimball Union 
Academy. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. Claremont, N.H.: Simeon 
Ide. 1845.—This work is constructed on the natural system, and has 
been a great desideratum for several years. Its Elements of Botanical 
Science contain a faithful, clear, and definite view of the principles 
taught by De Candolle, Lindley, Gray, Torrey, &c., the Classes, Or- 
ders and Genera, are all founded on the same authorities, and its de- 
scriptions of specimens, comprising all the plants of New England and 
New York especially, except the lower orders of Cryptogamia, are ac- 
cording to the natural method. ‘The artificial system of Linneus, by 
means of a few plain and ingenious tables, is employed only to lead 
the learner to the genus or the natural order where the plant is found 
and described. This work makes the study of plants interesting and 
fascinating, and must in our country supersede all the common works 
on the Linnean methods. Teachers of academies, schools, &c., will 
find it a noble work for their use in the study of plants. we 
17. Owen’s Illustrated Catalogue.—A quarto volume has just appear- 
ed, being a Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the fossil organic 
remains of Mammalia and Aves contained in the Museum of the Royal 
College of Surgeons in England. Edited by Prof. OwzEn. pp. 390, 
with ten lithographs.—Plate 1 is a restored figure of the gigantic ex- 
tinct Armadillo (Glyptodon) of South America—it is very beautiful ; 
all the tesselated osseous carapace remains; even the case which coy- 
ered the tail and the casque that protected the skull; there is a fine 
plate of the cranium of the same annimal. This work, like all Prof. 
Owen’s productions, is very excellent—not a dry catalogue, but full of 
information of the highest paleontological interest.* 
* Letter from London to the Senior Editor. 
