124 Bibliographical Notices. 



the fact that the true A. rosea and A. laciniata are different from the 

 plants which British botanists have been accustomed to consider such. 

 But we must conclude, and in so doing beg most strongly to re- 

 commend this work to our readers, who when travelling on the con- 

 tinent will find it invaluable ; and if studying plants at home, will 

 obtain from it a clue to much information contained in the floras of 

 other countries which might otherwise escape their notice. 



Zoology for Schools. By Robert Patterson. Simms and M'Intyre. 

 London, 1850. 



We are pleased to- find that this little work, of the first edition of 

 which we gave a favourable notice in May 1849 (Ser. 2. vol. iii. 396), 

 has so soon reached a second edition, as it may be taken as a proof 

 that its author's object has to some extent been attained : we mean 

 the introduction of the study of Zoology into education. It is 

 believed that a very considerable number of copies of this book has 

 been ordered by the Board of National Education in Ireland for the 

 use of the schools under their superintendence, and there can be no 

 doubt that, if it is really learned by the children who attend these 

 schools, they will have attained an amount of knowledge of much 

 value to them. Mr. Patterson has long made it his object to cause 

 natural history to become a subject of study in schools, and has pro- 

 duced in this work an excellent " first book," and in his * Zoology for 

 Schools ' an equally good " second " one. 



In our former notice we remarked, *' the book is illustrated with a 

 large number of woodcuts, but either from long wear or from care- 

 lessness in working, the present impressions are very inferior." It 

 is highly gratifying to be enabled to say, that a very great improve- 

 ment has been made, and that the cuts are now probably as good as 

 we have any right to expect them to be in a little book where they 

 are so numerous (246) and the price is so moderate. Far more at- 

 tention has also been paid to the printing than in that edition. 



In the Press, 



Mr. P. L. Simmonds, well known as the conductor of the ' Colonial 

 Magazine,' and one of the editors of the * Farmer's Encyclopaedia,' a 

 gentleman of many years' experience in tropical husbandry, has just 

 ready for the press a work on tropical agriculture, detailing the most 

 approved processes for the cultivation and manufacture of all the 

 chief vegetable products of tropical and subtropical regions, forming 

 staples of commerce ; as grain crops and roots, &c. yielding farina- 

 ceous substances, oleaginous plants, drugs, narcotics, and dye stuffs ; 

 spices ; plants yielding textile substances available for dress and 

 cordage ; fruits and dietetic articles, as tea, coffee, cocoa, &c. Such a 

 work has long been wanted, and embracing so wide a range of sub- 

 jects, if properly dealt with, must be peculiarly interesting and valu- 

 able to planters and agriculturists generally in our colonies and foreign 

 possessions, more especially on the eve of the great Exhibition of 

 these productions in their raw and manufactured state next year. 



