284 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Itinera Principum S. Coburgi. Die Botanische Ausbeute von den 
n ihrer Hoheiten der Prinzen von Sachsen- Coburg- 
Gotha. I. Reise u e 
Welt (1872-1873). II. Reise der Prinzen August und 
erdinand nach Brasilien (1879). Beschrieben von Dr. 
Fistibiian Rirrer Wawra v. Fernses, K. K. Marine-Stabsarzt 
d. R. Erster Theil. Wien: Carl Gerold’s Sohn.  4to, 
pp- Xvili. 182, tt. 39. 
A sumpruous book, in the best style of topography and chromo- 
lithography, co ontaining an enumeration of the Monocotyledones 
orm an idea of their quality, as the drawings are by the same 
artist eeinaiat, —and the chromo-lithography by the same 
printe 
The voyage around the world was accomplished by. various 
he 2a travelling, and the stoppages were mostly of short 
dur: Liverpool was the point of embarkation, and New York 
Shan gE SEER where they arrived August 10th, 1872. A few 
days were spent in making excursions from the latter city, and 
slands, or, as we ought to say now, Hawaia. Here an accident 
prevented Dr. Wawra from collecting, but their stay was only of a 
week’s duration; aid their next sn ea place, except for a few 
minutes in the Sam amoa Islands, was Auckland, in New Zealand, 
arriving there in the middle of Ostobiie Sydney was reached by 
the as of am same month, and left again on the 26th. A little 
more than a week was spent in Victoria, and a few hours in the 
rah of Albany, W. Australia; and by the end of 
November the travellers were in Ceylon. ‘Then followed a flying 
visit to Japan, touching at Singapore, poner sae hi eed and 
Shanghai; and calling at Batavia on the return voyage. Ten days 
were spent in Java; aa the next place eaited was Pulo Penang, 
where, however, the stay was of the briefest, as they embarked for 
Bombay the same evening, and arrived there on March 12th. 
Thence a tiger-hunting and sight-seeing tour was made through 
India. This lasted about three weeks, and the greater part of the 
time was spent in rapidly travelling from place to place. The 
eS voyage was by way of reo Suez Canal; and the party 
cash in Vienna on April 20th, 1 
rom the foregoing brief sketch ae the route, it will be evident 
feed the botanical collections could not be very extensive; yet we 
find new species destsibet.. faint Australia, Java, and India. But 
the greater part of the botanical collections was made during 
