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production of beginners, who are strongly recommended for their activity, 

 industry, and integrity. They have another catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, and 

 Herbaceous Plants of select sorts ; either may be sent by post for Id. 



Catalogue des Plantes du Jardin de M. De Kwitka, situe a Osnowa aiuv En- 

 virons de Kharcow. — One of the most extensive private collections of house 

 plants in Russia, amounting to about 1000 species. 



Traite de la Composition et de VOrnement des Jardins. 2 vols, oblong 4to. 

 This will be reviewed in an early Number. 



De la Loi du Contraste simidtane des Couleurs, 8^c. On the Law of the simul- 

 taneous Contrast of Colours, and its Applications. By M, E. Chevreul, 

 Member of the Institute of France, F.R.S, of London, &c. 1 vol. 8vo, 

 pp. 735, and 1 4to vol. of coloured plates. Paris, 1839. 

 This is a very remarkable work, containing much original matter, applied 

 directly to the disposition of flowers in flower-gardens and shrubberies, and 

 to the mixture of trees and shrubs in ornamental plantations. We intend to 

 review it more at length, as soon as we have leisure ; in the meantime we can 

 strongly recommend it to all our readers of taste who understand French. 



Report of the Society for obtaining free Admission to the National Momcments. 

 Pamph. 8vo, pp. 8. London, 1840. 



Twenty-five public institutions are enumerated in different parts of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, to which, chiefly through the exertions of this Society, 

 the public are admitted free of expense on certain days, and under certain 

 conditions. " The benefit conferred on all institutions for the promotion of 

 literature and science, by the legislature exempting their premises from the 

 assessment of taxes to the queen, is an important feature in the history of 

 our civilisation, and it is hoped, that it will be made complete, by a similar 

 exemption from parochial rates, as it is evident that any tax on popular know- 

 ledge must be injurious both to the funds and moral condition of the people." 



Government has cancelled the practice of taking fees for the exhibition of the 

 regalia of Scotland, and the Duke of Hamilton has ordered that no demand 

 shall be made for seeing the Palace of Holyrood House. Since the regalia 

 were free, 36,900 persons have visited them in the course of fourteen months. 

 The public are under great obligations to Mr. Hume, the chairman of the com- 

 mittee of this Society, and to George Foggo, Esq^ the honorary secretary, 



Histoire des Insectes nuisibles a la Vigne, et particulierement de la Pyrale, 8^c. By 



M. Victor Audouin. 



This work will develope one of the most ingenious and beautiful applications 

 of science that ever was made, and one that will save millions of francs an- 

 nually to France. It is under the especial patronage of the government, who 

 have subscribed for a sufficient number of copies to send to all the depart- 

 ments where the vine is cultivated. The prospectus contains the contents of 

 all the chapters into which the work is divided : it will be in 4to, with an 

 atlas of 23 coloured ] lates, in 5 or 6 livraisons at 10 francs each ; and, after 

 pubHcation, the pric; v/ill be raised to 12 francs. A slight notice of Professor 

 Audouin's discoveri'j.s will be found in p. 353. 



Bihliotheque Huzard. Pamph. 8vo, pp. 16. 



Notice Biographique sur J. B. Huzard. Pamph. 8vo. 



The late M. Huzard was an eminent veterinary surgeon, and a great lover of 

 books. He was born in 1755, and died in 1838, leaving behind him the best 

 library on veterinary surgery ever collected in any country. Some expectations 

 are entertained that it may be purchased by the French government ; but, in 

 the meantime, it is open to the governments or societies of other countries. 

 We have directed the attention to it, both of the English Agricultural So- 

 ciety and the Highland Society of Scotland. 



