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3 Sst hi undertaken — by me last Foes with the view of “ing 
268 Scientific Intelligence. 
Pearce. 
in Ace eet ae 
studied medicine, became an army surgeon, remained in the service until 
1830; and then, indulging a long-cherished fondness for Botany, he 
began th the career as a Cryptogamist j in which he has been so ee and 
eminen .@, 
on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients ; being the — 
stance of fink Lectures delivered before the Ui — of Oxford, 
by C. Dauseny, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of any and Rural Eocnoury 
in the University of Oxford. Oxford and tate 1865, 152 pp., 8v0.— 
An interesting little volume, ies with considerable research and 
good judgment what is known or may be reasonably conjectured in the 
way of identifying the principal te and shrubs mentioned by Gree 
n authors, or described by Theophrastus, Dioscorides, Pliny, 
&e. As to these primitive naturalists, Dr. Daubeny well remarks that, 
iy) Mo oreover, unavoidable i ignorance has often been turned into con- 
eas by the mis-appropriation of classical names of plants by modern 
botanists, and the adoption of these without enquiry by lexicographers 
At the close of the fourth lecture Prof. Daubeny alludes to, and recapitu- 
lates the points of, a paper — he read to the British Association at 
Bath, in 1864, in ‘which he suggests ts that, irrespective of changed condi- 
indeed, by favorable, and abridged by unfavorable meet, —— 4 
ut in no case can tran — certain definite limits.” This asbeen 
propesuded more ene once before, and under sieostesedings nome a 
certain probability. But the external influences to which every species 
; my and the irrepressible struggle among them will probably si 
ciently account for the observed facts. 
atalogue of the Trees and Shrubs indigenous in Greece a nd Italy, 
a story which we |at the time in this oto 
thinking it hardly worth the while to give so much attention. 4+ & 
_ 8. New Fluid for preserving Natural His 
tai for it in reserving the soft parts of animals. 
various solutions: and liquids tested were nearly all eet have ever Fpeen 
recommended, besides aay new ones. Chlorid of , carbolic acid, 
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