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The Study of Botany recommended, $c. 



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tate the study. Thus each volume will constitute, and will be useful 

 as, a separate work. 



But if this plan of publishing an English translation should not be 

 executed, or not speedily, the excellent and laborious work of Dr.Wight 

 and Mr. Arnott (the " Prodromus of the Flora of Peninsular India"), 

 written in English and containing the description of a number of 

 Neelgherry plants, will, in a great measure, supply the place of such 

 a translation, especially for those who reside in India; and I cannot 

 but seize this opportunity to recommend the " Prodromus" strongly 

 to every student of Botany. 



As the author of the " Plant a Indica?" hopes to furnish the decades 

 in quick succession and increasing perfection, if encouraged, and 

 enabled to do so, by an adequate number of subscribers to the first 

 volume, I beg my friends and every lover of science and ait, to make 

 the work known in their respective circles, that I may be able to inform 

 Dr. Zenker how many copies are required for India. 



A number of plants and shrubs have already been raised at Jena, 

 from seeds sent from the Neelgherries. Neither will it be uninterest- 

 ing to botanists to be informed that Her Imperial Highness, the Grand 

 Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, has been graciously pleased to grant the 

 expenses of building a green-house and stove, expressly for plants 

 from the Neelgherries and other parts of India ; and has likewise 

 granted a piece of land for trying to acclimatize the Neelgherry trees 

 and shrubs, and to ascertain their nature and virtues ; so that it may 

 be reasonably hoped that every succeeding decade will recommend 

 itself to the public by greater perfection. 



It is difficult at present to ascertain what will be the exact price of 

 each number. At Jena where it is published, it is four Saxon (heavy) 

 rix dollars, and a mercantile friend calculates that the price, in India, 

 will be about four rupees each decade. At all events, since we do not 

 seek pecuniary emolument, but the advancement of science for the 

 public good, I doubt not that it will be easily settled to the satisfaction 

 of all parties. To non-subscribers the price will necessarily be higher. 



IX. — Notes on the climate of Coorg, (with a Table). — By Surgeon 

 R. Baikie, of the Thirty-sixth Native Infantry. 



The principality of Coorg (Kodoogoo more correctly) is situated on 

 the verge of the western ghauts, the mountains on the west rising 

 abruptly out of the plains of Canara and Malabar. It consists of a 

 succession of lofty narrow ridges (inclosing valleys of various extent) 

 parallel to each other, commencing with a high, often precipitous 



