1062 
THE SENE CHRONICLE AND ioci GAZETTE. 
[Novese 5 
deseribed ; the chief feature of importan the 
uet prefix of admirable keys to the pers aud 
mr of discovering a 
ide ‘in the huge unwieldy — of so large a Flora 
as at indeed. 
The great cm of the volume i is the order Le 
ing plants, whether ir in 
but for which the labou 
e 
—Á Pew. on the rii wee b dis of the Sense 
Pai By G. A. R 
dicla Society, RY pum 
Museum, Pp.48. Williams & riui 
in the Oxfo 
eae, 
egum 
ect, which 
gn en "a sequently 
w which he pae is very interesting ; 
ies) of whic! h he obse 
ete over the warmer reg 
(Clianthus) only Ca. 
e 
are very generally dis- 
s of the globe, one is 
found only in yu and prt and one other | sen 
n Ney d Zealand and en 
ich inclu s 
The 
E is Pod this —^ That the sense of pain is not an 
sr gt but one of the most useful and importa ant 
ee Mem. of ial be 
It seems that in 1847 Mr. — bests to the a bea a 
| they are 
| antec oar dy : wile joe ist pain - 
e simply an inflietion. 
Se gp ubtedly there is a good deal r misa 
n the subjest of pain. The 
ended on as a proof of 
Very few hares or rabbits 
age—they are the natural ea of 
2 ee stoats cay vends w 
The ey | ve 
we possess, it is given to animals only in 
That 
The | as nr a degree as is necessary, a no creature 
and 
has a higher | sense of pai n than rund for web 
it 
more showy eg 
belong to thet tribes Podalyriem and ein em, and are ^ ich it belongs. e jos v ves o "ene t ; 
Cera d frequent on M onte "ab quarter of the | ^ Man (he con ees is liable f M — S " gi A. = s EL A at the 
continent; among these occur dins ene ra Brachysema, | injuries ioni which other ures are mpt; he e fort; ehind, and (a ey: n nem, ears 
Oxylobium, Choroze lobium, Jacksonia, | alone has a knowledge of, nd: i fire, pes tools, atch the slightest soun » and a degree 
Platylobium, Pultenza, Fen avt cede Nes of which a — po aps &c., for whic vd - for other which keeps them always on the 
few species have been occasionally cultiv ated and | s he ome protection, he will be highly indignant 
admired, but which, apod from rare is is M ml in his possessing | e» scratch you; but if the skin o 
coun or fro t being FERT propagated his | orent ‘sense of ain in nigher an while these inched ver M hard, sei een the fing 
cuttin ha beo en extensively. cultivated. | animals are mostly a adapted for ths yoke in which | ereature wi in 
ee 2m UR dwell, and a othed by Na There ca numerous e ases of horses, one 
greenhouse plants that bave ever been introduced, and | 
vga accordingly, 
man has no iem erin ap and the sense of pain drives 
m to self- -protection, and, the use "of X means 
z rom their neat habit and anh folia age, 
e other genera of Legu minosæ, Acacia is in | back parts o 
as w : as cm most lungs, though. the dott vital organs, have 
MX , 
adis the most remarkable, a 
faterestiüg to the MM: 
B 
and upwards have the _petio 
3 1 11 
5 
f horses, 
having accident was as 
heat or arctie 
ESS Rowell bids us observe that sensibility of touch 
Ta. PN - confused with sense of pain, for the 
s sea-anemones have exquisitely " sensitive 
| tentat, which carry food to their mouths, and m 
dece creatures may T eut in pieces, and each piec 
mes and perfect organism 
If we loo dist ibution of pain in nthe h 
inc 
k at the 
arts about re e 
ck parts of the ye , brain, and 
ith a dre Shige 
woe, ye nobody liked ‘the: a of putting the 
vy y, and while p on in 
beg the beautiful. p 
| Carnivoron is ets sometimes 
o 
be Tittle affect ted ri inj uries me have received, 
| the whole, there is reason to believe, that the sı 
by which some Tittle pai feed o 
hat is tá rmed a natural deat 1 
s to the pain felt at the. moment of violent 
3 £ 
in, 
the 
ell e str 
ere w e may observe t 
iis de cien once ger 
t it caused the patient no pain 
k 
|y their situation; and her 
s Dr. Her 
"E e 
© 
€ 
gstate o of the e plant, What ti 
being ‘either mn absent or seen eda ‘in. the very | 
baw: tever, and he 
qum that we had touched ee heart,” 
A 
*this young nobleman knew 
ge Charles Bell, 
as insensible as 
-yonn 
a few 
iei 
7 species, ont nothing 
the ree, pot Parin 
y e of th cdible fruits of Australia cceeds, 
„The Saxifragew, with. 20 genera and on ly 2 27 species, Pain, then, i 
the: 
e very fe 
surmised ; ; itis simt semia to do viser MN | 
her 
of o Any may be cut o 
ied interrupting ee pa atient | A ne sentence he is 
That which 
Row 
that fel 
to get at Fer 
E a Jio "ev 
ff | Yetat the time, sitiongh he M" fully ades whiéhn 
alf Pee inken T € 
was a flash of bri ll iant gg at the moment, as h 
posed, of his suspensi es Liv Lit had the: 
fortune to be seized 
taken place, he felt no pain, or even fear. Trad | 
of th s 
und in | uttering,” : sufficiently guarded needs | ment e moment seemingly 
acm with seven | not the extra mga ts senses; and he believed, that had 
wi of| The painful sensat Edif nce his death would hav 
arium Nonda, people of their heir danger, "but if they m this warning, | Dr. L. believed must the 
which | t 
then insensibility, and a — — 
is manifes stly and _indispens: 
| close this account, commending Mi 
d nia tba beautiful genus Bauera, o 
for 
uv. 
es “to show 
ne of the very | We think not. Mr. R. hop se nce 
Pe im st g "ires slirnbe ; ; Eucry phia Billardieri, a d believing that the sense of pain is given a ie The Journal of British Ophthalmology, and Qua 
gree of organisation be what it may—only| Report of Ophthalmic Hedin ge E & 
e Si. wih Ms whit "s Ver and which has never | ag far as is and useful to guard them fi y Jabez Hogg. London: J. Chure 
um en introduced ; Cerstopetalam gummiferum, one | injury, or to compel them to the function they have to | October, 1 a 
the Puneet. Hin Ri. the world, which | perform; and that many of the lower animals do not | It is a very common practice with second-rate 1 
Ble more profusely the o Lilac, and the flowers | possess the sense of pain, as to them it would not only | depreciate ovorything that is done at hom 
which are of a [huc cle Pas lastly, | be useless, but an infliction. fine, my object is to | laud to the mes in a fo 
Anopterus glandulosa, s brilliant ag ge reen bush, | show (he says) that the distribution of the sense of whether it ‘really pre ‘trom men of 
: M racemes o yl an those | pain, and the great law of nature, * Eat eaten,’ | inven r from sources as little distin 
(0 PIC one „and has ob by which animals of one class live on those of another. raan oun In os such spirit ib has. 
E hio ge on i 1 pubs mano to the Botan are both condn rm to the well- -being a nd happiness ot fashion to cry down British Oculists, though 
agn "e PAD E all asses of t ani imal creation, and afford the the reali improvements A ros - a 
otw BS oppien d Drosera wi than 41 Australian | C: e a ren e eir 
d: -Á a 
the e samo treatment as s Cephalotus. 
-species hich & vely endemic; many 
are most "benatiful, P would cra succeed under 
he question does not admit of absolute proof, the 
y be, have derived a eat de deal of hes 
from this cou x Ba 
pilo must be — if he 
We cannot, of course, pafas even an 
lin ents used, but there man i cat ajasin curren 
us be ree of the curious Loudonia, py kaar =e well worthy of attention The com moa fles he th fro iniri or boldn 
To i ee the Mangrove amiy, d is E ctl by fly is spoken of as affording an apt illustration both » aes re such indiscrimina 
Mangroves, all tropica tropical, and | the fec. re of th jesz animals, and the eese. — remit i i 
al - S ilst Combre- | of th ck provided again st super- | lv 
ltr shrubs, x E | abund of them. ission of t fli aper S. 
e of any horticultural | the scavenger work of the world wherever thet e seems otherwise inevi 
h treit york must be done quickly | It is with a laudable 
synonyms in n. index age 
can 
with this, the 
wholly by Mr. 20, 
1 
e Bars 
the 
motives, or 
inquiry, and a ac Pesci disposition 
stated that one fly will deposit 
ir. 20,000 e are hatched ali ^ as soon as 
ria for this special time in the pupa state, and no sooner do T aie 
tas|to the perfect fly than t y peg ue prey 
, bats frogs, &c.; thus ja ie lai : 
c restored, - m S s becom the 
ked up by Mr. turna source of sustenance and enjoyment to Peres 
E acm Mt bein € The neconty Daas this destruction 
r has ascertaine er of 
Rea 
mber- of | (ezes that a r single dy will de 
he 
speret deser 
canno Inde 
and 
eposit o | 
2A e egg to develope = a ng oma , but 
et ive a month fi 
without E aa | supp as gi a ene ree it we 
ith 14 m wou 
done brethren. en the ability 
hich the ty od 
A out. At ti the p 
"a 
narkably 
ho is 
ie! 
dd, t that 
emies; it could produce no moral effect; upon them, as 
of this kin 
forward, and we must say that the 
creditable for 
pero pe 
articles 
is perhaps too much of à 
s icis possibly fum the object int 
s not likely that this should be kept u 
uld|the more needléss 
better. 
It would be i ae ri x place in 
present to en 
—— however 
eneral 
Calab 
Sapro 
l order Leguminosæ, 
ties aon which so fatally 
