76 Geology and Natural History. 
sis, the doctrine of the derivation of species serves well for the co- 
ordination of all the facts in botany, and affords a probable and 
critically and at some length. 
been held to be in dispute, the law is pretty authoritatively laid 
down. The important but too much neglected subject of herbo- 
which, for the convenience of many, are given the Latin equiva- 
1 : : 
G. L. G. 
7. Chronological History of Plants: Man’s Record of his own 
existence illustrated through their names, uses, and companion- 
ship ; by Cuartus Pickertne, M. D. Boston, 1879. (Little, 
Brown & Co.)—This is a quarto velume of over twelve hundred 
closely printed pages, about half of which were already in type 
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beginning of the first Great Year in the E yptian reckoning. 
The first plant mentioned by Dr. Pickering is Artemisia Judaica 
field of Genesis ii, 5, and the second is the tree which yields bdel- 
lium, probably a palm, Borassus dichotomus, though possibly a 
species of Balsamodendron, The remaining plants, animals, mu- 
sical instruments and metals of the antediluvians are next consid- 
: _ ) a 
primarily significant of natural objects. Other parts of the world, 
the names of kings, writers, animals, 1 
