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Antiquarian, Historical, and other Researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru, and Chili; 

 with Observations on the Pre-incarial, Incarial, and other Monuments of Peruvian 

 Nations. By William Bollaert, F.R.G.S., Corresponding Member of the Mines 

 of Chili, &c. Trubner & Co. 



Me. Bollaert is so well known for his geographical and antiquarian researches in 

 South America, that any work from his pen forms an acceptable contribution to our 

 stock of information. His various papers before the different learned societies of the 

 metropolis and the British Association, and his valuable contributions to all our prin- 

 cipal museums of commercial products, antiquities, &c, renders it scarcely necessary 

 for us to say much respecting this, his latest, work, which is fitly dedicated to Sir B. 

 Murchison. It is chiefly devoted to antiquarian and ethnological subjects ; but there 

 is scattered through its pages a great amount of recent geographical and statistical 

 detail, and even some quantity of technological detail, of which we have availed our- 

 selves in the present number. The book is illustrated by a large number of plates, 

 and will be read with interest by many. 



The Experience of Forty Years in Tasmania. By Hugh M. Hull. Esq. London : 



Orger & Meryon. 



This is one of the best and neatest compendiums of colonial information that we have 

 seen yet brought out, and it describes honestly and truthfully one of our antipodian 

 possessions of which much too little is known. It is such hard books as these — issuing 

 from the colonies themselves, and not merely compilations got up by interested and 

 unscrupulous parties here— that will do most good in impressing intending emigrants 

 with the true nature of the localities in which they may wish to make their home. 

 Many years ago, in the Colonial Magazine, we advocated strongly the interests of this 

 island, and pointed out its various capabilities and advantages as a field for settlement; 

 and its progress since has served to strengthen rather than weaken the favourable 

 opinions we then expressed. The statistics and details of colonial products would 

 alone entitle this little work to a favourable notice at our hands. Mr. Hull has done 

 his work well, and it forms an admirable guide for the purpose for which it is intended 

 — an illustration of the Tasmanian products exhibited in the Crystal Palace, and which 

 are so well arranged and described by Dr. Price. A map of the island, and about a 

 dozen well-executed wood-cuts, add greatly to the interest and usefulness of this 

 manual of Tasmania, 



A New Material for the Manufacture of Paper. — At a period when the 

 papermakers both in England and upon the Continent are complaining of the inade- 

 quate supply of rags for the manufacture of paper, it may perhaps interest some of our 

 numerous readers to learn that M. de Paravey, in a recent communication to the 

 Academy of Sciences at Paris, called the attention of the members to a plant from 

 which an excellent kind of paper is procured in Upper Scinde, and to the north of the 

 Himalaya mountains. This material is much used in Thibet, and amongst the native 

 bankers of India ; and its employment is referred to by Moorcroft and other travellers. 

 When it has become soiled, or written upon, it can be made up again and re-bleached. 

 The plant in question is the Ruscus aculeatus, commonly known in this country as 

 Butcher's Broom, and may be met with in considerable quantity in most woody 

 districts — London Medical Revieic. 



