Apart 30, 1859.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 387 
— lighten the public at large on the | prolonged foliaceous ca pels, the limb was non- -adherent | especially in the passes over which it was necessary ryt 
very great), especialy a you oag people 2» sc ae snd divided into five e five nerv | 
—4 cite mor the specimens would orresponding with the usual primary ridges were mote "e be — 2 KE oniy by those who — 
dott | ut des tute of 5 ines. The carp els were in ursuit of health an —— but 
west ci St iable to be br oken when 5 | present, b: ti pi a wine whe travel — sw P mech pre 
4 Could. the British Museum be in- | leaves, a Ld E the tube of the calyx i in ‘their lower | ment, and w ake an — in n the geology or 
when * ke the N in hand and have a v bend part; the of the omine we l histor: — of the places through which they pass. 
dun ? of the sem birds’ eggs coloured strictly after upper part, ee ‘ans wa of ovules or of To these latter no less than to the former the present 
ns in their possession 3 The author also — a “fo rm of Trifolium | volume will prove acceptable, for Mr. King travelled 
; ht, solid, at ‘Gunite material, what a _boon it pratense found i in Ble nhei eim m Park, in which the flower- | v with Mis eyes open, and has noted many particul 
e both to museums and schoo ls, d 200 ders and geological, respecting the 
woald be d taking the nests would be done away wi ith, | of the st — —.— of both —— tpi the ide visited by! him. He also made sketches of the 
d A uld then be in possession of at t least the paper. 3. „Descriptions of some new spec objects, and has introduced into his 
many rare specimens of eggs, ork some 2 — T aee n 
Bri um undoubtedl cee I 1 r with an enumeration of thos ose species Mon te Rosa, the e eh - : 5 3 — e 
have little or no chance of g many jd Stel i in oo ania by iini pe Esq. arranged Glacier of La etin vag sens -— „ 
and distressed ladies in Tondon p do p^ light and | upon the plan — —— e Bryologie Indie - Pie de la Grivol — “en 4 " —: - — 
icate work as t this — r Nature, and be | Precursor, by William — an Esq., a long paper of | three well executed maps of Mont Bla its en- 
p the chance pris wd The 3 —.— muscolo — virons, Monte a and its —Ü and of the Italian 
bed ng the series oui be light, " yet not easily 7 7.—Prof. v anias — — chair. Edward | valleys of the Peunine Alps. m dd the 
to en; the co hould b —— studied set eppar — Esq. w ected a Among the | glaciers and passes very distinctly, d wi Tee e. 
from the — Bo as oe as t the Ex and shape. | donations announ — was —— er Hedwig, pre- | valuable to the wanderer through these little fre 
If they were issued bearing the stamp of the British | sented by the treasurer, Dr. t, and a portrait by | quented —— b Missi ME 
Museum, we should be certain that they would be| Wageman of the late James Dickson F.L.S. The It no — seme? eca d C — 
vto nature, and the series, whether pitacha to following papers were read:— *On the cranial aie a ve "aree void of a ou all los — 2 
the birds (each its one n m t e ean 4 uld be reir 7 H aes rares mew to the Briti sh € langer. ss 
ect, and wi uld en an idea of man auna, . A. Salter, M.D. 2. eD g 
o de we ais: now only ge - when i in: London. the Gen Lobster — Shore Crab,“ by Dr. J. A. d in pint e of — 
ch could be named. I merely th alter. 3. *A note he Habits E the Aye-Aye, land. The ey dad to — it in 2 
gestions; may I hope that thay will be Thought: feasible? Cheiromys madag: —— by H. Sandwith, M. D., | word, by night as Ah -— — 1 
And as an old subscriber to the Gardeners C. B Colonial Secretar: ary o ata € Mauritius in a letter to — obstacles, and even — — ig! ^ magni- ' 
Mr. Wa terton would do the „poblic at la Tia. de Owe observation ude. Bu t for the details of these and other matters we 
h 
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o 
p ow the 1 men- he cultivati oi in Eagan’ “of Cicer arietinum, Linn., | must 
pue he last . of that excellent paper the Gram of Ind — other — has an index and full table 
i ur 
are preserv d, he w eo 
on all who are interested in such matters. Of course Notices of Books. Beeton’s Dictionary of Universal Information 
" sh Museum h of 18, Bouverie are a new serial, is a wonder.. For 
ving them membr and ie 2 “hoped th the | Die Blattskelete der Apetalen (Skeleton Leaves of — a Pp aria. —— r ce a ely P pon Sre 
F. N., Ludlow. 4p rd gy e e r i Tín. s ^om e af comicus soot jo b he lowness of the price, combined 
| with ; 
4to. 
llo 
1 ndon. t 
= trust it may prove a successful Specie The repeal 
Sottettes. A doi volume illustrated by 51 admirably nature. = he paper ation, now wo fear adjourned indefinitely, 
LINNEAN: March 17. — Prof, Bell, President, in the thinks most likely to elucidate the history of | W uld be a Tah ag oe 2 conti E oe reg 
chair. The Rev. G. W. Braickenridge, ts B. Brady, — vegetation or tertiary formations. The letter. ace written in aure 5 t 
759 . . Esq., w WS. Cones press consists of, a dissertation upon the types 5. | chiefly relate to bi ography an T geography, other sub- 
b s, the Grapple but it contains no attempt to connect such — jects being sparingly 3 W. ould ala 
-— am vo G by th secretary. folk ith th f extinct vegetati thought that the low price would have been induce- 
read :—1. On Saas 3 Afin" by — — ment enough to — bat. prizes are also offered 
Ts 6.1 Hilgar M. D., of St. Louis. This was a very | The Portrait of a 41 y to — Bj the nature of which we refer to the 
a essay on a very abstruse subject. Treating on 3 1 Tytler E his friend Rev. work its 
what —— — empiric peculiarities of organic life, urgon, 8vo. Murray, pp TRA: 1sTs. — Supplement, Sc. (su pplement and 
r observed :—** anie forms and individuals The History of Scotland br 7 — subjeck of the memoir Peri ers the 65th Catalogue of A. Verschaffelt, 
. have p ci inated from inert or inorganic ones, before us is one of those monuments of — —— isa sheet of post letter paper “containing the 
crystallisation, and the individual crystals. | industry which mark the e m Aaa autho some of the most select pla n the 
difference be; Paine. v ithout Lene aar e far poses important | fishers collections which is well! 
impartiality and accuracy, 
t 
i n ith —.— die cies. Palms and Palm-like plants are 
s. Both grow y; both require the presence | acceptable, it roclaimed th wen truth is not always | offered at fo 5 fran eana Todtieben, hih is DE: 
; ; i e tle wi 
f T acuta substance to e have a the fearless —— Mr. Burgon's narrative, eee aalen at 10 franes et $ 
| 2 chemie ed af morphie constitution. Where are|founded upon long personal i and — — SCA 
vrais for nine distinction or essential of either con- correspondence, confirms the opinion that would have 
— t One great distinctive feature is, -— been formed from the mere perusal of the historian's Miscellaneous. if 
Eni — live, or develop and generate. Ma writings. le of Coniferous Seeds. ignments of these 
development is described (not definable) as a calf Mr. Tytler, a son of Lord Woodhouselee, an eminent — Mexico, India, California, and Vancouver’s Island 
caused — e of form and chemie substance: Scotch judge, was educated for the bar, but soon quitted were sold on Wednesday last by Mr. Stevens. Among 
self. caused implying that _the e peni cause concerned the le gal pr rofessio: on for the pursuit of literature, them were 10 packets of the rare Pinus Pedri, 
p which deserted. . st — - | — fetched ^ - E 50. — ar “al - 100 seeds 
18 during -— he widow s Deo ther any canvas 
As to the e chemie we find that cao 0% as organ LA | i — er been spe ent in t composition of his History, ‘he | | wenn apparently i in tolerably good on ditat: Lots 
stance has other powers of chemic action art corre- | married a second m ‘fell into deplora cH ill health, |in ach weighing about 8 lbs. fetched 
spond to the w wei ght and constit ution of i iner rt matter took up his residence in Germany, and returned to od or PA AL per ve small veces of Ficea amabilis 
concerned, it d| England after at years’ absence to rap t Malvern. | 37. 3s. each; Cupressus Lawsoniana from 3/. to 4l. 
beyond, or orally prior to chemic — substance, He appears to e be een — for the strong | per box; C. —— in bags not weighing more 
being imparted in one way on inert mat ligious feeli m through life, | than 1 ib. from 11. to 27. per lot; a small box of 
on living matter. We know empirically that galvanism t less d drawin wing r va — Londo’ m x cones of Abies Witamson mr — Shs a boxfull 
is more powerful than any amount of chemic affinity the whiri "i m travel or the excitement of fi inus € oye uniperus 
inherent to matter; nay, that it stands in the place of | s sports i which he excelled, than in the retirement o xem 10 lots, seriis z. bags, rr a yr 17. 3s. per 
superlative affinity itself; and that affinities are appa Mr. WP lot. Other lots, of which there were in all 211, fetched 
rently in inorganic matter directly dependent on their | object as been to represent his de mcr im all from 10s. to 17. 1s. per 
galvanic exponents.” The chemical and physical | the — of his career; writing with the met of: the| Australian Medicinal 1 —At a meeting of the 
at of inert matio aS pipes procee eeded to say, miniature piis er, and "the hand of the panegyrist ; Ph arm aceutical Society of ice held at Melbourne, 
direct proport weight. which will 3, 1859, Dr. Mueller exhibited a series di ma 
i on the pecia — 2 “persist” in the be read with ae by all who are interested i in the | pos et Ae plants as be € of interest to 
| a mit us dca rofessi vidue e d 
è act mportant fact, that — 1 d chemistry had often 
wi other substances to react upon, it| The Italian se of the Pennine Alps. — the Rev. aided in in revealing the true nahe o Le pic K 
in not act out a given change of circumstances S. W. King. 8vo, pp. 558. Murra: as freque ently in gen nera and species 
nid proportion to its weight, as sulphur, iron, or ,, Numerous as are the excursi ons made every year t g principle exists, xd es dene 
bon would; it excites a greater amount of power. Al t nally and economically allied plants might occu 
lying chemie potency with the assumption of | vol T ften attempted by | countries widely se i 
e into its peculiarity, instead of being satu-| the more adventuro 1 hough | climates, He st 
as in the other case. It would the glaciers of — Sn ep) ve | Dap 
reag 3 deci ble atten 
: Bt povi b teh "of — kno: 
eings ; 78 nce of wel wn as 
3 power Tx “Of t iing being The author’s | through them by Mr. i 
le series," w hich hy he next proceeded son Fn be well worthy repetition, even by 
eg, | thi n 
th 
Š ies accompanied the paper.—2. “On | visi 
By M 1. Lon of wild Carrot, Daucus ota.” | Val Pellina, Val d^ in their 
ate Esq. was pick widely ets 
ET at Olte Switzer’ in July | Val i e Linnean system. conse- 
the whole ofthe flowers of the umbel Sesier, V: ‘utmost importance to m ge m 
some a ghiy a 
condition, but in those particular], epe ay ai em al à | quently students to become th 
the tube of the vir we brat o e [und Ship Vil dl Ovitin: each one of these , and | uaa ‘os "- 
