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GoTTiNGEN, 1799 to 1803, and Neues Journal fiir die Botauik, 

 eight parts in four volumes, 1805 to 1810. 



The following are the principal Zoological and Botanical 

 Journals now being carried on in Germany under private editor- 

 ship : — 



The Linnfea, ein Journal f lir die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Um- 

 fange, in small octavo, with a very few plates, was established by 

 Schlechtendal at Beiiltn in 1826, and, moving with him to Halle 

 in 1833 or 1834, has continued under his editorsliip and, I believe, 

 proprietorship to the present time. It appears in parts, of which 

 about six make a volume, and it was intended at first that the 

 volumes should correspond to the year, but having, after some 

 years, got into arrear, the attempt at absolute regularity in issue 

 was given up, without losing sight altogether of the original plan 

 of about a volume a year. It consists chiefly of systematic and 

 descriptive papers ; and from the first, Avhen the editor, in con- 

 junction with Chamisso, commenced the publication in it of the 

 results of the voyage round the world of the latter botanist, to 

 the present day, tliere has been much of considerable value which 

 we have frequent occasion to refer to. It also contained bibliogra- 

 phical notices, which were afc first given at the end of each part, 

 with a continuous pagiug ; then, from the third volume (1828) to 

 the sixteenth (1842), they v»-ere separated by a distinct paging, 

 title-page, and index for each volume, under the name of Lit- 

 teraturberichte der Linnsea. "With the seventeenth volume 

 (1843) the bibliographical articles were discontinued, being 

 reserved for the Botanische Zeitung ; and to the old title of 

 Linna3a Avas added the second one of Beitriige zur Pflanzenkunde, 

 of which this was the first volume. This seems to be a useless 

 complication ; for the work is always quoted as the Linujsa, and 

 the double title and numbering of volumes,- if noticed at all, only 

 creates confusion. It is now, after thirty-nine years, in the 

 thirty-fourth volume, or eighteenth of the Beitrage. Each 

 vokmie has a table of contents and index of names. 



"With the above-mentioned change in the Linnsea (in 1843) a 

 separate botanical Journal was commenced, something after the 

 plan of the Rafcisbon Flora, under the editorship of Mohl and 

 Schlechtendal, at Berlin. It appears in weekly numbers of 

 one sheet each, with occasionally an additional half sheet, and 

 now and then a plate, each year forming a volume in foolscap 

 qtiarto, in two cokimns, on thin paper ; each volume, like tlie 

 Plora, has a classified index. In the first fifteen years the 



