Sci'c'Jf'^c T^tfelfujence. ^^'o. ^, new series, 
V. - : .im that tHs Talaal.= t. -j \-- 7. 
rested iji it3 progress, owing to the want of encouragemer.: : . - 
rirt of the East India Company. Dr«. Thomson and Hooker nn- 
dertock ine work at their own risk. The first Volume gives an 
cirnest of what might have heen expected at their hands. The 
hers are already well known to the scientific world hy their bo- 
i^cal works, and every one acqaainted with science is aware of 
their high standing and of their thorough competency for the task 
they have undertaken. The work is ? national one, and promises 
to be one of the most important which has appeared in the bota- 
nical world. It will be the result, in a great measure, of personal 
observations, aided by the unrivalled resources of the Hookerian 
Herbarium. That such a boon to science should be stopped for 
want of funds, and that the authors should sufier pecuniary loss, 
is by no means creditable to our country. When the Admiralty 
have most nobly published the results of arctic and antarctic ex- 
peditions, it is surely not too much to expect that the East India 
Company, which is so much indebted to the labours of scientific 
men, should lend a helping hand in making known the vegetable 
productions of that vast territory over which they rule. 
We think that all interested in science should unite in memo- 
rializing the Company on this surject, and we cannot for a moment 
doubt that the unanimous voice of scientific so de ties and scienti- 
fic men will ultimately prevail. — Edinburgh New PhUcsophical 
Joi :- . : 204. 
SCIE>'TiriC I}sIELLICtE>'CE, 
Mines of Antimony. 
G„ „. - the Home Office may be found srtne interesting 
correspcn deuce relating to Mines of Antimony. 
So far back as 1854, Major Hay brought to the notice of the 
Chief Commissioner of the Punjaub, that he had discovered on the 
great SLlgree Mountain a vast deposit of metals in granite, cae of 
