148 Scientifie Intelligence. 
interested in botany, and who may desire or who ought to procure 
it. e could not in fewer words explain its nature and scope, 
the history of its production, and of its reproduction in the pres 
t form. It is the desideratum, the general work which we are 
entifically professional men, medical or other, and the amateur 
botanist, no less than by more serious cultivators of the science, 
is in th 8 
chiefly new illustrations (in wood-cuts) of the second and far most 
important part of the work. These give it a value which cannot 
be over-estimated. Those which are not original are taken from 
excellent sources, such as the Geneva Am. Bor. [llustrata. The 
hole are here repr 
trations are a great help. 
The original work was duly noticed in this Journal. The Eng 
lish reproduction of it has reached us barely in time for the al 
ent announcement, which we are unwilling to postpone. Nothing 
which a critical examination is likely to : 
qualify our judgment (founded on considerable use of the original 
in French, and a cursory examination of Mrs. Hooker’s transla- 
tion), that this ample volume well supplies a great want in this 
country; and that the heartiest thanks of all English s 
the successful execution of, her most laborious share in its produ 
tion. As to Dr. Hooker’s part of the work, there is no need 1 
commend it. The wonder is how and when he found time for 
and Illustrations of the Orders. By Ema. Le Maovt, M.D., Member of the Phi- 
lomathique Society of Paris, and J. Decatsne, Member of the Instistute of Frane®, 
Professor of Cultivation, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, With 5500 figures by L. Stet” 
heil and A. Riccreux. ‘Translated from the original by Mrs. Hookes. The Ordem™ 
tain, its Colonies, America, and India; with Additions, and Appendix on the ger 
ral Method, and a Synopsis of the Orders, by J. D. Hooker, O.B., F.R.S., LS. 
GS., M.D., D.O.L., Oxon., LL.D., Cantab., Director of the Royal Botanical Garden 
iow i SS of the Instistute of France. London: Longmans, Green © 
