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tacece, CrassulacecB, Ficoidece, and Aloinecd, groups in which the 

 garden is particularly strong and on which Mr. Berger has 

 published important memoirs. 



An account of the gradual development of the Garden since the 

 purchase of the estate in 1867 is prefixed to the work ; an inte- 

 resting drawing by Daniel Hanbury, showing its appearance at 

 this time, is reproduced, with the same view at the present time, 

 showing the marvellous development of vegetation. There are 

 portraits of Sir Thomas and of his brother Daniel, the eminent 

 pharmacographist, who took the greatest interest in the Garden 

 until his death in 1875, introducing from various localities plants, 

 especially those of economic importance, which still flourish there. 

 A list of the contributors to the Garden, who in turn have profited 

 by its treasures, shows that every part of the globe has been laid 

 under contribution. 



The work throughout has been executed with the greatest 

 care, and reflects much credit upon Mr. Berger, who is to be con- 

 gratulated on the use he has made of the material generously 

 placed at his disposal by Lady Hanbury and Mr. Cecil Hanbury. 



Bref och skrifvelser af och till Carl von Linne : meet understod af 

 Svenska staten utgifna af Upsala Universitet." Forsta 

 afdelning, Del vi. Pp.445. Stockholm (Aktiebolaget Ljus). 

 1912. 

 The sixth volume of this admirable and monumental series of 

 volumes containing the letters to and from the great Swedish 

 naturalist is before us, and is brought out on the same plan as its 

 predecessors ; see this Journal for 1911, pp. 278-9. Swedish 

 writers, whose names extend from Ehrenpreus to Hallman, are 

 included in this instalment, and it so happens that we meet with 

 fewer letters from Linne himself than in earlier parts. It follows, 

 therefore, that we have a larger number of his pupils and other 

 correspondents reporting to him their experiences on their travels 

 and the like than usual. Of the more prominent we may mention 

 Johan Peter Palck, at one time tutor to the younger Linne, but 

 whose extant letters are solely from St. Petersburg; Bengt 

 Ferber, who tells Linne that even so late as the year 1759 the 

 daughter-in-law of G. Clifford, his former patron, is still angry 

 with Linne for having enticed the gardener Nietzel from Amster- 

 dam to Upsala (more than twenty years before) ; Pehr Forsskal, 

 as written by the traveller himself, twenty-seven letters in all ; 

 Henrik Gahn, with news from London ; Johan Otto Hagstrom, 

 the bee-master, who, in the last letter from his former professor, 

 is called affectionately " My good old friend " ; and the most 

 copious of all, Daniel Zachariae Hallman, with nearly thirty long 

 letters. The last was Legation chaplain in Madrid from 1754 to 

 1757, and thus became acquainted with the same set of Spanish 

 botanists as Alstromer and Lofling. 



We get a momentary glimpse of Isaac Lawson in a letter 

 dated from London, November 23rd, 1759, from Bengt Ferber, in 

 which he says, " Dr. Lawson, who studied with the Archiater 



