554 REVIEWS. 
mine what plants, both native and exotic, are common enough to de- 
mand a place in it, or so uncommon that they may be omitted.” Should 
it be found that ade of more cultivated plants are wanted by 
o use the book, we are half promised that ‘if the book answers 
its purpose reasonably well, its shortcomings, as regards them, may be 
made up hereafter.” Ms 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARA- 
TIVE ZOOLOGY.*—By the present report it appears that this Museum, 
with its great store of specimens, requires to be enlarged in order to 
$10,000 should be about doubled in order to carry on the work of pub- 
lishing, and the internal a ment of the collections. We hope 
the grant of the Piilsi; Sandi their last session, will more than sup- 
ply this want. The director presses upon the trustees the claims of sci- 
the col 
on peng Fossil Plants. Dr. Hagen, iíthovgi at are in the Museum, seems 
to have contributed nothing to the present Report. We quote from Mr. 
Lesquereux’s report the following remarks on American Fossil Botany : 
“The few vegetable | remains, for example, epee from the Tertiary of Tennessee ona © 
Mississippi, f Nebraska fes California, have de! monstrated 
facts, which i echoes was scarcely prepared to admit: 
*Pir 

NT S hich separated 

them roms each other in the different continents. This is even evident fey the vegetation of 


Gos at me enenreh. Therefor re, the suppos siti ion of a continental — of Europe with Am erica bY 
cond. That € ae nt aii ae ea ftt ous and pmo! son 
have passed into our present ve egeta tion, or are pre eserved to our re 
nearly 
our 
Soar for example, has already the Magnolias, whieh w e-find | es a anani in 
"a the 
in 

ey sti 
mentioned only to show the importance of collections of fossil plants from every fo 
our American continent, the only part of the world where questions of general tory 00t- 
ang palxontological distribution can be studied with some chances of satisfac 
clusion: 
NATURAL History or Brrps.t—There is at present great n wee 
elementary work on Ornithology, treating of the general per oth 
ived. 
of ‘Lectures on Ornithology,” Part I. of which we have already rece 
Report of the 
* Annual Danja of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology: 
p. 22. 
Director, 1867. 

Anna Lewis. 
lrei History of f Birds, Lectures on Laan In ten parts. By Grace ne 
J o, pp. 82, 1868. 
adelphia: J, A. Bancroft & Co. 








