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siieaen and Illustrated with four coloured Plates of the Plants 
peculiar to the County, and a Map, small 8vo; pp. 1. and 470 
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shillings, which can hardly have Eatcine Song bare cost of pro- 
duction, this work was a considerable e to its author; but 
yielded him in return a well-merited scientific ploar a as a local 
botanist. It was in several respects a distinct advance on pre 
county floras. As had been done in the ‘Flora Hlertfordionsis’ and 
‘Flora of Cambridgeshire,’ he carefully traced the distribution in the 
county of common as well as of rarer plants; but he also searched 
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curate and concise. The on y great improvement in county floras 
established since the publication of this work has been the substitu- 
ion of the division into river-basins for that into artificial districts. 
Everyone who has followed in his steps in the study of our older 
i tes writers will fully endorse his remark that ‘‘ the examination 
of these old ae has produced a decided conviction that much 
—y te exercised by” ‘their authors, ‘‘ both as rope sein 
observations credited to Ray. It is but fair to mention here, as is 
done by the author in his preface, the great assistance rendered to 
him, as to thn seg ters of several other local Floras, by his friend, 
Rev. W. W. ould, who undertook excursions in several out- 
lying districts to ne localities, who searched the herbaria of Dale, 
Buddle, and others, corrected the proofs, ‘‘and added ie 7 critical 
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services to his native town was the 2 promation of the branch ae 
from Audley End. His father having, in 1830, discovered a number 
of human skeletons in his garden, Mr. Gibson in 1876 commenced 
a series of excavations which have resulted in the discovery of a 
most important series of remains belonging to the 9th or 10th 
century, underlaid by a prehistoric village of pit- ag gm which 
_ will be described in a most interesting ‘Paper by Mr. H. Ecroyd 
