60 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
tothe Genera, &c., of the whole series of volumes concludes the 
ork. 
The few pages of concluding words by M. De Candolle will be 
read with interest by all botanists. The author gives in them a brief 
history of the progress of the book, and some curious statistics. The 
‘* Prodromus”’ contains 214 natural orders, 5134 genera, and 58,975 
species; had the Artocarpacee been monographed the number of 
Dicotyledons would have been about 60,000. Composite are of co 
oport 
The rac book pr 13,1944 ae ; pra nearly half—i.e. , 10 less 
than 5950 pages—have been contributed by the three generations 
who bear the honoured n ‘of De 
Candolle. Of the other ve it is somewhat ccaianiadl yi aa 
considering that systematic botany is followed in England to the 
exclusion almost of other branches, that no more than thes —<Benshaall 
- Hooker, and Weddell—aré our countrymen ; whilst there are 11 
Swiss, 9 French, and 8 German authors, and the remainder consist of 
an Italian, a Swede, a Dutchman, and a Belgian. . 0. 
Where there’s a win there’s a Way! or, Science in "the Cottage. An 
Account of the Labours of Naturalists in Humble Life. By James 
asH. London: Hardwicke. 1873. 
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the North of England, has led to the establishment — the func 
field clubs and natural history societies, which in instances 
number their members by hundreds. It is indeed belly & to be wished 
that in these societies there was more of the earnestness which charac- 
terised these pioneers of the movement ; we should then have more to 
record of their proceedings than is at present the case. 
ra ? the names in Mr. Cash’s volume will be familiar to our 
English readers, who will be glad to know more of the inner life of 
men hows! arr to science have frequently come under their 
notice. Such are Samuel Gibson, of Hebden Bridge, who was a 
Buxton, author of ‘‘ Flora of Manchester ” : ; Edward Rotils, an aceu- 
rate muscologist, and author of ‘ Musci : ritannici” ; and others. A 
more widely-known member of the same body was George Caley, 4 
Lancashire weaver, who was despatched to New South Wales by Sit 
Joseph Banks, where he made extensive collections of plants, many 
of —— were described by Robert Brown, who termed him “‘ botaml- 
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