Botany and Zoology. 451 
222 pages. It was presented to the American Medical Association in 
May, 1852, and published during that year, at Philadelphia. A rare 
_ of the order Composite, which inhabits the southern borders of 
exas, was dedicated to Dr. Clapp in the Botany of the Mexican Bound- 
ary Survey. 
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upon our southern coast than he zealously began to collect the plants 
he met with, and to note their peculiarities. Alt his scientific 
acquirements and insight were not great, his zeal and devotion to botany 
were thorough and genuine. A. G 
Dr, Charles Wilkins Short died at Louisville, Ky., March 7, aged 69 
years. A notice of his life will appear in our next issue. 
LOGY-—— ? 
10, Evidence as to Man’s place in Nature; by Toomas Henry Hvx- 
Ley, Fellow of the Royal Society. 160 pp. 8vo. Londen: Williams 
anc ate.—The able zoologist, Prof. Huxley, discusses in the first 
chapter of his work, “The Natural History of the Man-like Apes,” or 
the Orangs, Gibbons, Gorillas and Chimpanzees; in the second, “ the Re- 
lations of Man to the lower animals;” and in the third, the “ Fossil -re- 
mains of Man.” The second topic is that towards which al] the rest of 
e work points; and the conclusion of the whole is, that man belongs 
structurally to the same order with the Quadrumana, and constitutes 
among the Primates (as the order is called, after Linnzus), the family of 
Anthropini ; and further, that “if man be separated by no greater strue- 
tural barrier from the brutes than they are from one another, then it 
seems ow that if any process of physical causation can be dis- 
covered, by which the genera and families of ordinary animals have been 
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