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REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, fyc, lately published, tvith some Account of 

 those considered the most interesting. 



RENNIE, James, A.M., Professor of Zoology in King's College, 

 London, &c. : Magazine of Botany and Gardening, &c. In 

 monthly numbers, 4to. 



Having noticed this work (IX. 351.) on its first appearance, we 

 should not have again recurred to it, but for the following letter 

 from Professor Lindley, which we leave to speak for itself: — 



" Dear Sir, In Berrow's Worcester Journal of the 28th 

 Nov. 1833, I have been shown the following advertisement: — 

 ' Published on the 1st of every month, the Magazine of Botany 

 and Gardening, British and Foreign. Edited by J. Rennie, M.A. 

 Professor of Zoology, King's College, London ; assisted by some 

 of the most eminent botanists in Europe. Each number contains 

 eight plates of the most rare and valuable specimens of plants, 

 executed by an eminent artist, and coloured from nature ; also, 

 sixteen quarto pages of original matter. The numbers already 

 published contain a variety of articles by Professor Rennie, 

 Colonel Capper, Professor Lindley, a valuable article on Botany 

 by Mrs. Marcet, Professor Burnett, Sir Wm. Jardine, Mr. Jas. 

 Munro, M. Adolphe Brongniart, Mr. W. Moorcroft, Mr. George 

 Don, Mr. Jesse, Rev. John Fleming, M. Bremontier, Mr. Doyle, 

 Dr. G. Johnston, Mr. Henry Marshall, Mr. R. Brown, Mr. John 

 Donaldson, and many others of equal talent. London : pub- 

 lished by G. Henderson, 2. Old Bailey, Ludgate Hill ; and sold 

 by all booksellers in town and country.' 



" From the ingenious manner in which this is worded, it must 

 doubtless be imagined by the public, as it was by the person who 

 called my attention to the paragraph, that this original matter is 

 furnished to Mr. Professor Rennie by those writers whose names 

 he has made use of. But, as I am not ambitious of the honour of 

 being considered one of this gentleman's contributors, I shall be 

 very much obliged if you will be so good as to allow me to state, 

 through the Gardener's Magazine, that no original matter what- 

 ever has been either supplied or promised to Mr. Professor 

 Rennie by me. He has availed himself of some passages in 

 works written by me, as he also has of others in the works of 

 several of the writers mentioned in the advertisement ; and this 



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