410 Scientific Intelligence. 
indicated on pp. 287, 288), as also errors in the distribution, call for cor- 
rection. It is to be hoped that Mr Wright will some day print a revised 
list i in the order of their numbers. Meanwhile the writer of this notice 
logue contains— 
Dicotyledons, ens of which 781 are peculiar to the Island. 
Monocotyledons, 634 “ 148 “6 “ “ 
Vascular Cryptogamia, 279 4 10 “ “ «“ 
Total, 3263 “ 939 rT; “ er 
And Mr. Wright’s more recent explorations, which are still in —— 
will largely increase the number. If Hayti could now be equally e 
plored, the flora of the West Indies could be bateten with some opie 
to ection, 
haracters of the new species only (and these are very many) are 
this volume. The diagnoses of the new Huphorbiacee are, 
Sevier unfortunately omitted, having been published by —— 
in the Nachrichten of the Gottingen Royal Society of Scien 
that we have, thanks to Professor Grisebach’s studies, so goo: oa a aria a 
tion for Cuban botany, we may hope that our indefatigable explorer may 
crown his Senate and 16 researches by a general ce of 
the flora of the A. 
. Flora deatealsene, Vol. Ill. Myrtacee to Composiie, 1866.— 
This great work makes rapid progress in Mr. Bentham’s able hands. 
no inal size. 
ae Geographical Distribution of Mammal 3; by ANDREW iepenat: 
400 pp., 4to, with 105 chromo-lithographic maps. ‘London, 1866. (Day & 
Son.)—This — volume treats those subjects in extenso which are 
merely gl n the physical atlases of Johnston and others, includ- 
ing the Seaeilution’< of fossil species according to their geological position, 
nd discussions of the views o ssiz and Darwin, without adopting 
either in full. The work extends to forty-three chapters, eed an ex- 
tended appendix and numerous cuts illustrating animal peculiari 
Geo questions are discussed and maps given of the +00: fathom 
_ of soundings ; the effect of a depression of the land 600 feet; Ter- 
tary an and ary formations; localities of glacial action ; rising an 
falling of land of the present period; and the s sargasso seas. e ma 
mamm ibution oe commence with the human race, chapter 
vii, p. 56, but two branches of which are acknowledged, the black a 
aa the ee including = except the negroes and Australians, with 
r 
The cotplataaee of the work may be judged from the extent to which 
ga rete enera are located. Maps 7-10 are sig i the distribu- 
8; 13, to the lion; 14, to the tiger ‘ossil nn ba 
18, ising hyenas; 26, bears; 29, Sidinclienns ines ae il); 
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