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subjects, some papers on the local fauna and flora, especially insects 

 and cryptogams. 



There are several Belgian horticultural journals and periodicals 

 with more or less of Botany ; and two of them especially, under 

 the direction of the two great rival nurserymen of GtHENT, contain 

 numerous original descriptions and figures of new plants, with oc- 

 casional botanical notices and short monographs. The More des 

 Serres et des Jardins de I'Europe, by Van Houtte, wibh the oc- 

 casional assistance of Planchon, Decaisne, and other eminent 

 French botanists, was commenced in 1845, and, with some interrup- 

 tion a few years since, still continues its monthly issue in octavo, 

 with plates mostly coloured in imitation of (and in the early 

 volumes often copied from) our Botanical Magazine and similar 

 publications. It is now in its fifteenth volume, the last five some- 

 times considered as a second series. The rival publication, edited 

 by Charles Lemaire, and entitled Le Jardinier Fleuriste, Journal 

 general des progres et des interets Botaniques et Horticoles, was 

 originally commenced in 1851 in large octavo, with coloured plates 

 the majority copied from English periodicals, and continued 

 through four volumes to 1851, It was then recommenced by the 

 same editorj but, it Avould appear, more immediately under the 

 direction of Yerschaffelt, with the new title of Illustration Horti- 

 cole, Journal special des Serres et des Jardins, with more original 

 plates and matter. It appears monthly, and is now in its twelfth 

 annual volume. 



X. Germany. 

 1. Transactions and Journals of Scientific Associations. 



The peripatetic Academy Naturse Cariosorum, which changes 

 its locality according to the residence of its president, considered 

 itself, under the ancien regime, as the Physico-Medical Academy 

 of the German Empire, and was then established at Nubembeeg, 

 but with the understanding that it might move to any Imperial 

 city. It was supported by the Imperial Government, and pub- 

 lished under the long title of Acta Physico-Medica Academise 

 Cfesarefe Leopoldiuo-Carolinse Nature Curiosorum, a first series 

 often small quarto volumes, from 1730 to 1754, and, as JSTova Acta, a 

 second series of eight volumes, from 1757 to 1791, of Transactions, 

 with little if anything of Natural History that need now be 

 referred to. After the publication of the eighth volume, a long 

 interruption ensued. The successive deaths of two presidents in 

 the course of a twelvemonth, and the horrors of the Erench inva- 



