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yet met with. "We have already hastily noticed the first part of the 

 work, (Vol. XLVi, p. 195.) The second is principally occupied with 

 the Organs and Functions of Reproduction ; in which all the recent 

 discoveries are incorporated, and novel theories presented or briefly 

 discussed. The principles of classification are then considered, and 

 the leading natural families are neatly characterized, and many of them 

 illustrated — like the organographical part of the work — with beautifully 

 executed wood cuts. A chapter on Geographical Botany, with a cur- 

 sory notice of fossil plants, concludes a volume upon which it would 

 be difficult to bestow exaggerated praise. A. Gr. 



8. Jahresbericht uher die Arheilen fur Physiologische Botanik im 

 JaJire, 1841 ; von Dr. H. F. Link. Berlin, 1843. pp. 79, 8vo.— The 

 interesting yearly Reports on the progress of Vegetable Physiology, 

 by the late Prof. Meyen, which were contributed to Wiegmami's Ar- 

 chiv fur Naturgeschichte, are generally known to English readers 

 through the translations prepared by Mr. Francis, and published either 

 in a separate form, or in Taylor's London and Edinburgh Philosoph- 

 ical Magazine. Since the decease both of Prof. Meyen and of Prof. 

 Wiegmann, these reports have been drawn up by the veteran Professor 

 Link, and published in Erichson's continuation of the same scientific 

 journal, and also in a substantive pamphlet form. We have just re- 

 ceived the Report for 1841, the second of the present series, which 

 was published only a few months since ; and would only remark, that 

 these almost indispensable summaries are not likely to decline in inter- 

 est in the able and impartial hands of Professor Link. We may here 

 briefly notice another work by the same author, viz. 



9. Anatomia Plantarum Iconihus lUustrata, auct. H. F. Link, Fasc. 

 1. cum tab. lithogr. xii, (with a corresponding German title.) Berlin, 

 1843. — This is the first part of what appears to be in fact a continua- 

 tion, in a cheaper and quarto (instead of folio) form, of those fine 

 illustrations of vegetable anatomy which we announced in this Journal 

 at the time of their publication. The text consists merely of the ex- 

 planation of the plates, which are executed in admirable lithography. 



A. Gr. 



10. Crania Mgyptiaca, or Ohservations on Egyptian Ethitography 

 derived from Anatomy, History and the Monuments ; by Samuel Geo. 

 Morton, M. D., Author of Crania Americana, &c. ; 4th part, pp. 67, 

 14 plates. (From the Transactions of the Am. Phil. Soc, Vol. IX.) 

 Phila. 1844. — The previous labors of Dr. Morton as a craniologist, have 

 placed his name in the first rank of ethnographical science, and given 



