286 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



we compare the plants from the Mackenzie Eiver with the Tertiary 

 Flora of the United States, which has been very thoroughly worked 

 up by Professor L. Lesquereux, we find eight species in common, 

 viz., Tax. (list., Sequ. Langsd., Glypt. Ung. f Cor. M'Quar., Pop. 

 Richard*, Populus Arctlca, Betula macrophylla, and Platanus 

 aceroides (?)" We trust that this most objectionable method of 

 abbreviation will find no followers, although it has the sanction of 

 our leading scientific society. 



The very cheap and handy ' Aids to Bible Students/ issued by 

 Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, contains " An attempt to summa- 

 rise such information as is attainable relative to the plants of the 

 Bible," by Sir Joseph Hooker. 



Referring to a paragraph, on p. 256 of our last issue, reprinted 

 in the * Garden/ the Rev. H. H. Dombrain writes as follows in that 

 journal for August 14: — ."In the obituary notice of my former 

 associate, Mr. W. Andrews, it is stated that he was one of the 

 original founders of the Dublin Natural History Society. This is 

 incorrect ; he was not even a member of it until after it had existed 

 two years. I have now the first two annual reports : in the first 

 his name does not appear at all ; in the second only as a subscriber, 

 not even a member of the council. He joined the society early, 

 and gave it his hearty and generous support. Its history is simply 

 this : two university students were, in the year 1838, out entomo- 

 logising in the neighbourhood of Dublin, and, while discoursing on 

 various matters, the idea was started of a society for the investiga- 

 tion of the Natural History of Ireland, where less advanced 

 naturalists might obtain information, and become better acquainted 

 with one another. Of these students I was one, and my late 

 friend, the Bev. B. S. Clarke, the other. The idea was taken up 

 with a good deal of spirit. We commenced in a very quiet way. 

 Our apartments were at first at a rope and twine shop on D'Olier 

 Quay, although our first gatherings, when the society could hardly 

 be said to be formed, were at Glenan's, the birdstuffcr in Suffolk 

 Street. Our first year's income was £37 10s. In the following 

 year our borders were greatly enlarged ; we migrated to commodious 

 rooms in Great Brunswick Street. Some of the most eminent men 

 of science in Ireland joined us. Archbishop Whately took us by 

 the hand ; Mr. (afterwards Sir William) Wilde, Professor Allman, 

 Bobert Ball, David Moore of Glasnevin, the Lord Lieutenant, the 

 Provost of Trinity College, became members, and we left off at the 

 end of the second year with a balance of £80. In 1841 I resigned 

 my secretaryship, to which, if I remember rightly, Mr. Andrews 

 succeeded ; at ty rate he became aad continued a very active 

 member : but it will be seen from this that he was not one of tfc 

 original founders of the society." JJy a printer's error we gave 

 11 last month " instead of " last March " as the date of Mr. Andrews's 

 death. 



Other New Books.—E. A. Rau & A. B. Hervey, 'Catalogue 

 of North-American Musei.'— Malinvand, 'Materiaux pour l'histoire 



