LINNEAK SOCIETY OF LONDON. Ixi 



K. Koch and Fintelmann's "Wochensclirift fiir Giirtnerei unci 

 Pflanzeukunde, quarto, in two columns, wliich has formed annual 

 volumes since 1858, and is still carried on. 



The Hamburger Grarten- und Blumen-Zeitung, published at 

 Hamburg, in monthly parts, octavo, forming annual volumes 

 with a few plates, is now in its twenty-first year. It was com- 

 menced in 1845 as Neue allgeraeine deutsche Grarten- und 

 Blumen-Zeitung, under the editorship of E, Mettler, continued 

 by Otto from the fourth volume (1848), and changed its name to 

 Hamburger Grarten- und Blumen-Zeitung with the seventh 

 volume, 1851. It frequently contains short botanical papers, 

 especially descriptions of new plants. 



Hegel's Gartenflora, Monatschrift fiir deutsche und schweize- 

 rische Garten- und Blumenkunde, was commenced at Erlangen 

 in 1852, in monthly numbers, octavo, with coloured plates, in 

 some measure in imitation of our periodicals of the kind, but 

 often very inferior in execvition. It still continues to be dated 

 from Erlangen, although the editor has been for several years 

 Director of the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg. It is now in 

 its fourteenth year, and contains numerous descriptions of garden 

 species, supposed to be new, although many unfortunately will 

 not bear the test of a close examination. This leads one to 

 suspect that Hegel himself, who in other works has shown a 

 sound appreciation of the value of species, may not have so much 

 to do with the details of this one as his name on the title-page 

 would imply. 



Baron Hiigel commenced at VieknAj in 1837, a Botanisches 

 Archiv der Gartenbaugesellschaft der osterreichischen Kaiser- 

 staaten, in octavo, with coloured plates, to be issued monthly, in 

 close imitation of our Botanical Magazine, but it was never con- 

 tinued beyond the second part. 



XI. SwiTZEELANl). 



The General Swiss Natural History Society published a first 

 volume in quarto, in two parts, dated at Zurich, 1829 and 1833, of 

 Denkschriften der allgemeinen schweizerischen Gesellschaft fiir 

 die gesammte Naturwissenschaften. The papers it contains are 

 chiefly geological ; the only biological contribution is a short 

 one by De CandoUe on Fatioa. This volume was followed in 1837 

 by a new series, entitled Neue Denkschriften, &c., also with the 

 French title of ISTouveaux Memoires de la Societe Helvetique des 

 Sciences Naturelles, of which we have now eighteen volumes, the 



