LIITKEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXSl 



ferred to Leguminos^e — with characters different, it is true, from 

 those of the Order as far as known to nie, but which, on an autho- 

 rity like his, I admitted without hesitation ; but now I have acci- 

 dentally come across, not in the Linnsea, where the plant had 

 been published, but in the above Tijdschrift, amidst agriculture, 

 algebra, and physics, a short paper, in Dutch, on the relations of 

 Polygalea? to Leguminosse, by which it incidentally appears that 

 ModscMedia is a species of Securidaca. This correction, although 

 made nearly fifteen years since, has been so concealed as not to 

 come in the way of any compiler, and has now turned up too late 

 for adoption in the Grenera Plantarum I am engaged in with 

 Dr. Hooker. 



Several Journals of Natural History have been successively 

 started at Letden by private individuals, but all have come 

 to an end after a few years' existence. The Bijdragen tot 

 de Natuurkuudigen Wetenschappen verzameld door Van Halle, 

 Vrolik en Mulders, in seven volumes 8vo, from 1826 to 1832, in- 

 cluded all branches of Natural History and Physics, the zoologi- 

 cal and botanical papers not being numerous, and relating chiefly 

 to the lower animals and plants of the country. This was fol- 

 lowed in 1834 by Van der Hoeven and De Vriese's Tijdschrift voor 

 Natuurlijke Greschiedenes en Physiologic, 8vo, with a few plates, 

 each volume divided into two parts, with separate pagings, — 1st, 

 Oorspronkelijke Stukken (original papers); 2nd, Boekbeschou- 

 wiag en Letterkundige Berigten (Eeviews and Literary Notices). 

 It was carried on through twelve volumes to 1845, and includes 

 geology and kindred sciences. In Zoology there are contributions 

 by Temminck, S. Muller, Van der Hoeven, Vrolik, Snellen van 

 VoUenhoven, Schroeder van der Kolk, and a few others ; and in 

 Botany the chief papers relate to the floras of Surinam and of 

 the Indian Archipelago. 



In 1848 the Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief, in octavo parts, 

 with one plate in each, and exclusively devoted to botany, was com- 

 menced under the editorship of De Vriese, Dozy, and Molkenboer. 

 It came out very irregularly in the following years, and appears 

 to have ceased with the end of the fourth volume ia 1848. It 

 contains several papers on the plants of Surinam and of the 

 Eastern Archipelago, but is chiefly devoted to the Botany of the 

 Netherlands. 



A botanical and horticultural periodical, with plates, some 

 coloured, chiefly with a view to publishing the novelties introduced 

 from the Dutch Colonies, was commenced in 1858 by Siebold and 



