. 
_. : 
ful account of Dr, J. M. Bigelow, and still more for his itera 
270 Scientific Intelligence. 
11. Revue de Géologie pour les années 1865 et 1866, par M, Dz- 
LESSE et M. de Lapparrnt. Vol. V. Paris, 1868. (Dunod)— 
Another of the valuable Annual Reports on the progress of Ge 
ology, by Delesse and Lapparent. 
lil. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
1. The Book of Evergreens, a practical Treatise on the Conif- 
ere or Cone-bearing Plants, by Jostan Hoorss. Illustrated. New 
ork. Orange Judd & Co. pp. 435, 12mo.—This book is mu 
wanted, is creditably executed, and is likely to be widely popular. 
The illustrations are well chosen, numerous, and fairl Great 
ains have been taken to mention, if not to describe all the Coni- 
the author’s eye before this. For instance, that if he must rn 
refer Sequoia, the genus of our famous Redwoods of peer 
ine Family proper, or Adietinew, he should at least m 9) 
the character of the group so as to receive it. We were at : val 
to know why a genus so entirely Cupressineous as Sequota be i. 
ever have been referred to Abictinew ; but we find that einer 
was misled by Sir Wm. Hooker’s figure of some foliage W 
guessed a belong to the great tree of which Douglas @ 
ter had s i 
were of the common Redwood (S. sempervirens), and the 
Hooker figured, belonged to a Fir. So Endliicher, who in his lat 
; “vation of 
© must complain of Mr. Hoopes, that in his compilat’ 
fanciful narrative of Bayard Taylor, and too little from 
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