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satisfactory to get them now. It is, pa eg ie be regretted that the 
Introduction to Lichenology was not made ewhat fuller; though of 
course what we have is accurate, it is far [9 eds nsed. Some of the 
space occu ied by the glossary, which is unnecessarily copious, might 
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additional localities. Those who possess Mr. Leighton’s book as at first 
issued, will find it necessary to obtain this useful Supplement, which is 
evidently intended to be bound up with it. 
Mr. Alexander iio af 28, Upper Manor Street, Chelsea, S.W., A 
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the * Flora of t Tropionl Africa. A selection of thirty-seven F ihe more 
interesting species is figured, Col. Grant having undertaken to have no 
less than one hundred plates ‘drawn at his own expense to illostrate this 
ligi contribution to African botany. 
roceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ 
for Feb., 1872 (issued May, 1872), contains Dr. Asa Gray’s determina 
tion of Elihu Hall's collections made in Oregon in 1871 about 108 
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to the Linnean Society, which has been printed. and disci to the 
Fellows. Very extensive extracts have appeared in * Natur 
In the first part of the * Berichte des nat. med. Verein í in a Toni 
for p. A. Kerner has described ten new Rudi from the Tyr d 
ral papers, specially interesting to English botanists, are "tobe foun 
in the last publi shed part of the * Abhandlungen ' of the Natural History 
ciety of Bremen, especially a Flora of the Islands of East Fri 
(including Wangeroog) by C. Nóldeke, with the Mosses by C. E. Biben, 
and an aecount of the Salicornice of the German coast of the North Sea, 
by F. Buchenau and : 
T her ere is a curious romar in a feck note to Dr. Lindberg’s valuable 
and suggestive paper on Zoopsis, printed in the ‘ Journal o3 the Lin 
