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well for the position which this work holds, that it is possible for 
the publishers = reprint the entire volume after so comparatively 
short an interv 
tneral Kiribioianl: En geintreanite Mi bestimmandet 
sO Mineralier och Bergarter af Dr. F. J. Wu 217 pp. small 
Helsingfors, 1881. This little volume will doubtless receive 
shi welcome it deserves among the special class of students and 
readers for whom it is intended. It ranks with the well known 
bach and Websky he physical ‘side, and of von Kobell and 
Brush on the anise side, Professor Wiik devotes the first 
art of the volume to a general discussion ~ the if epee eo 
ical, physical and chemical character of minerals ; the remainder 
of drawing out independently each of these three methods of 
determining minerals, and of giving under each those characters 
of the erat pal which belong there, is for purposes of instruction 
an excellent 
IIL Botany AND ZOOLOGY. 
. A Manual of the Conifer, containing a general Review of 
ae Order, a Synopsis of the hardy kinds cultivated in Great 
Britain, their place and use in Hotlines ete., etc. James 
Veitch & eyes bis hat Exotic Nursery, pues Road, Chelsea. 
1881. pp. 343, roy. 8vo.—We have ha e pleasure to receive 
this large and. beantifal volume, the ule popular book of the 
day upon Coniferous trees, as it is the most recent. It is well 
adapted to its purpose, which is not to serve as a scientific agree, 
but to supply the demand for practical information whic 
stantly made upon an establishment ae that of ba Messrs. Veitch, 
and, indeed, is made by the legions of planters of Conifers in 
Great Britain and elsewhere. It is copiously nae by wood 
engravings, the smaller ones in the letter- ee the larger as sepa- 
rate plates. Among the most notable e latter, that of a 
branch and cone (nine inches long} of °tBice nobilis, grown at 
Bicton, takes the lead; a view of the famous Araucaria-avenue 
at Bicton faces the title- -page; the unrivalled Avauearia at Dro 
more (now sixty-one feet high and in the most perfect condition) 
is represented from a hotogra ave pecially taken for the purpose ; 
- eae less interesting are such as the Zaxrodium on the bank 
e Thames at Syon House—the | towe: part only repre 
emulating a “ cypress swamp ” n Car cane also Earl Ducie’ s fine 
és bracteata at Tortw Orit a fir ick 1, Wherever it can be 
pe ag grown “ will always be ‘auarded with genuine admi- 
