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Botany and Zoology. . 859 
12, Annual Report of the Geological Survey of New Jersey, for the 
year 1864, by Prof. Gro. H. Cook, State Geologist. 24 pp. 8vo. Tren- 
of the progress of his survey, dwelling mostly on economical results. 
Acolored map of the formations is included. 
Ill, BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
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bestowed so much labor,—the leading genus, Quercus, extending to 281 
species, Castanopsis (to which belongs C. chrysophylla of Califurnia), 14 
species, Castanea, only two well determined species, and Fagus, 15; the 
Corylacee, admitted as an order, after Hartig and Doll; also the Juglan- 
 Myricacee by the same promising hand (38 species of Myrica, including 
Comptonia, and Chapman’s Leitneria of Florida); the Platanacee, and, in 
anote, Liquidambar, by Alphonse DeCandolle. The Betulacee and Sali- 
new member of the series of British Colonial Floras. The present part 
Healand, but of the outlying islands which may be regarded as of the 
of the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage under Capt. Ross,—volumes 
much too bulky and costly to subserve the main purpose of the Hand- 
mainly in the middle island, adding fully one-third to the number of 
flowering plants previously known. The genera are here brought up to 
, the species to 935,—still exemplifying the insular paucity. O 
these species 677 are peculiar to these islands; 222 are Australian, and 
ll American. There are, besides, 51 Australian representative species, 
and the American identical 
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have been collected in the Lord Auckland’s Group by Commodore Wilkes’s 
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