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been the primary considerations. But we would not be understood 
as applying these remarks to the work before us; we rejoice that the 
American scientific public have this unequalled work placed in their 
hands in so neat a form, and at the same time at a price not beyond 
their means. We trust the enterprising publishers may find suffi- 
cient encouragement to repay them for their exertions; while we 
could still more earnestly wish that the overtures for a reciprocal 
recognition of the rights of literary property on both sides of the 
Atlantic, which were made by numerous English authors during the 
last session of Congress, may be promptly accepted both for the pro- 
tection of authors and the encouragement of all good learning. 
4. Flora Cestrica. An attempt to enumerate and describe the. 
Flowering and Filicoid Plants of Chester County, in the State of 
Pennsylvania ; by Wm. Darlington, M. D. 2d edition. West Ches- 
ter, Penn. 1837. 8vo.—The author of the volume before us has been 
long and favorably known to the cultivators of botanical science in 
this conntry ; and valuable papers from his pen have at various times 
appeared in the pages of this Journal. ‘That the present has been 
a work of great labor no one after glancing at its pages can doubt ; 
and many years have been occupied in its arrangement and comple- 
tion. During its progress the author has held correspondence and 
exchanges with all our most distinguished men in this science, and 
with not a few abroad. ‘The arrangement is according to Linneus, 
though the author seems to be aware of the value and importance 
of the natural method of De Candolle and others. Speaking of this 
subject in his preface, he says: ‘‘ An apology will doubtless be ex- 
pected from me for still adhering to the Linnean arrangement when 
the modern botanical world have so generally abandoned it for the 
natural method. 1am fully conscious of the old fashioned garb in 
which this work is arranged, and have a thorough conviction of the 
value and importance of studying plants according to their natural 
affinities; but observing that the natural method is yet kept as it 
Were in a continual state of fermentation, by the labors and researches 
of the great masters in science, and feeling my inability to co-ope- 
rate or aid in adjusting its details, I thought it most advisable in the 
present attempt, to adhere mainly to the Linnean classification.” 
The number of plants described by Dr. Darlington in this local 
Flora, is 1073—comprising 128 of Lindley’s natural orders=482 
genera. 
