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decided, as his many friends and admirers in this country will be 
glad to know, that it should be issued through a publisher in the 
usual way. It makes an octavo volume of goodly size. 
charming photograph of a lovely character will interest many to 
whom Dr, Harvey was personally unknown. 
‘The Genera of South African Plants was one of the late Dr. 
Harvey’s first undertakings when established, it was thought for 
Some years, at the Cape of Good Hope. It was published at Cape 
Town, in 1838, and most useful it was in inspiring and developing 
the study of Botany in the Colony: noris its usefulness superseded 
by the elaborate Flora Capensis, which was carried on with re- 
markable promptitude while Dr. Harvey lived, but which remains 
unfinished. He had prepared in a good degree the materials fora 
new edition of the Genera, which has row been edited by Dr. 
Hooker, the succinct introduction to Botany originally prepared - 
by Mr. Bentham for his British Flora, and since added . to all the 
Colonial Floras, being prefixed. 
Ing able to devote his whole time without distraction to Systematic 
tany. The fourth volume of the Flora Australiensis ap d 
almost a year ago: it contains most of the Monopetalous orders 
: of Madagascar, as I had rashly done; 
yet he is wrong in the supposition that Thouars’ plant not Convol- 
i S retia and Cordia, On inspection it 
er from Breweria, and to a Cressa, in the 
Corolla, which not plaited in wstivation. There are probably two 
les, 
The Flora of Tropical Africa by Prof. Oliver, ‘assisted by 
other botanist; Y auotoh not erste a Colonial Flora, is upon the 
me model. It is founded upon the African collections which 
have accumulated at Kew. Considerable as they are already, they 
