612 Liter ari) Notices. 



the Year 1836, with some remarks and corrections, which we shall 

 elsewhere make use of. 



Sechtes Preiss-Verzeichfiiss der verschiedenenfoinen Tqfels Ohstsor- 

 ten, Geholze fur Garten- Anlagen, Ge'wdchsliaus-Pflanzen, Sfc., 

 fur 1837-8, moelche bei S. und J. Binz, Kunst und Handels- 

 Gdrtner ifi Frankfurt am Maiji, zu haben sind : that is, The 

 Sixth priced Catalogue of Fruit Trees, Ornamental and Use- 

 ful Plants, &c., propagated and sold by S. and J. Rinz, Nur- 

 serymen, Frankfort on the Maine. 8vo, pp. 31. Frankfort, 

 1837. 



Verzeichniss der Griinhaus-Pfanzen des Freyherrn Carl von 

 Hilgel, No. IX. Catalogue of Green-house Plants, cultivated 

 in the garden of Baron Hligel, at Hietzing, near Vienna ; with 

 the prices indicated at which they will be sold or exchanged. 

 Pamph. 8vo, 46 pages. Vienna, 1837. 



Art. VIII. Literary Notices. 



KoLLAiCs History of the Insects injurious to Gardeners and 

 Farmers is translated, and will be put to press before this notice 

 sees the light. 



Essays on Natural History (in which the habits of various birds 

 injurious to gardens are noticed), by Charles Waterton, Esq., 

 will appear about Christmas. 



The Rose Amatem^'s Guide, by T. Rivers, jun., including plans 

 for rosariums, will shortly be put to press, and will, we have no 

 doubt, prove an excellent work. 



A Treatise on the Concentration of the Sim's Rays, as applied 

 to Florticulture and Agrictdture, by Robert Gauen, is in the press, 

 and will shortly be published by subscription. 



A botanical periodical, by Baron Hligel, somewhat in the 

 manner of the Botanical Register, but with definite side-headings 

 for geography, history, year of introduction, propagation, culture, 

 &c., as in Willdenow's Abbildung, and Maund's Botanist ; im- 

 provements which we have many years ago stated are greatly 

 wanted for the Botanical Register and the Botanical Magazine. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices^ 



What is Science ? " Is it something," as Aristotle has it, " which we know," in 

 contradistinction to art, " which is something which we do ? " Does true science 

 consist, as Bacon declares, in " the knowledge of facts ?" Then statistics is a 

 science. It possesses the five constituent elements of a science, as enumerated 

 by the French ideologists ; namely, Facts, Nomenclature, Systematic Classifica- 



