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not conceive—as we readily can—of other final causes, some of them im- 
portant to the continuance of the species, thereby subserved. 
~March, 1861), 4to, pp. 60.—This Society enters upon its career with 
zeal and spirit. These Annals open with the history of the Origin of the 
Society , and of the proceedings attending its formation, the Laws, and the 
r ings of the earliest meeting. Professor Blackie of Nashville, 
Tennessee contributes a medico-botanical paper upon Cornus florida ; 
Mr. Schultz one upon the Botany of the Red River Settlement and the 
old Red River Trail; Mr. Drummond, Contributions to the local flora of 
Kingston, the head-quarters of the society ; Mrs. Dr. Lawson, on the silk- 
Graphephorum and its synonymy, by Prof. Gray of Cambridge; List of 
Ag collected on the Island of Anticosti and the coast of Labrador, by 
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cam, by Drs. Hooxer and Toompson—the Crucifere. Here Dr. Hooker 
£)ves,—what was much needed,—a new distribution of the genera of 
cifere, so far as represented in India. The primary divisions, four in 
number, rest upon the , whether jointed or jointless, indehiscent or 
dehiscent, and in the latter, whether compressed parallel or contrary to 
the partition. The tribes, eleven in number, rest upon the shape of the 
, the arrangement of the seeds, and, rather subordinately, upon the 
cotyledons. The whole makes a much improved natural arrangement. 
Under Barbarea we are not surprised to see B. arcuate and B. pracox 
to . 
4. Class-Book of Botany ; being Outlines Pee gare ihe’ ‘State 
