134 Scientific Intelligence. 
5. Cythere (Bairdia) Schaurothiana, Gane), Sebel Kirkby. 
Kirkby. Figured int ule plate accom- Figured in plate accompanying 
panying presen sheuent paper. 
6. Pinites Brondling’, Lindley. For the occurrence of these a 
1 Trignocarpum Neggeratht, in the Rothliegende, see Howse 0 
Bro the Permian Fossils of Northioniber 
18. ‘Sigillaria reniformis, Bro Jand and Du — in Annals Nat. 
19. Calamites inequalis(?), Lindi, ser. 2, vol. xix, p. 38. 
20. —— approzi rong. 
4. Geological Survey of Canada.—Report on the Geology of Canada. 
8vo, pp. 692 (incomplete).— We have at the last moment received this 
valuable document as far as seth Many of the more important of 
its general conclusions we have already been enabled to place before our 
readers, thanks to the kindness of Sir William Logan, Mr. Bi llings and 
rof. 7 . 
. Dese scriptive ate of a collection of Economic Minerals of Can- 
Ba and of its Crystalline Rocks, (sent to the London International Ex- 
hibition for 1862). Montreal, 8vo, pp. 83.—This catalogue, re 
prepared by Messrs. eee and Hunt, seer gs much more 
VI. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
Geyera Puantarum ad Hxremplaria imprimis in Herbariis Kew- 
ensibus servata definita ; auctoribus G. Bentuam et J. D. Hooxer. Vol. 
I, pars I, sistens pee gaat yaen: Polypetalarum Ordines LVI arpa 
leas—Connaraceas). Lon areca, ere Williams & Norgate, etc. 
1862, pp. 454, imp. 8vo othe first w of the preface, “ Linnaeus 
Generis inventor fuit,” state a proposition which, it would seem, may be 
questioned, upon the authority of the person who ought to’ know. best. 
notice of Czsalpinus and others, gives to Tournefort the credit of estab- 
lishing genera in botany upon pure systematic rules; and later, in the 
Philosophia Botanica, he declares that “ Tournefortius primus characteres 
i i i nd further, in Gen. Pl., “ Characteres 
, & 
suck, So are they by Jussieu, as would naturally be expected, 
good extent by Endlicher. The practice now introduced, of citing all Ihe 
