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which it is hoped, will still be suffered to see the light. It is 

 earnestly to be desired, that the task of editing his papers may be 

 committed to competent hands, for we are well assured that if 

 adequately treated, they will pove a lasting and worthy monument 

 of one who H as eminent not only for the zeal and ability which 

 distinguish the votary of science, but for those high minded, disin- 

 terested and generous qualities that do honor to the man, and which 

 in him were carried to an almost morbid extent. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Thwaites's Enumeration of the Plants of Ceylon. 



Under the above title, we are happy to find from the Kew Mis- 

 cellany, that Mr. Thwaites is preparing a work on the plants of 

 Ceylon, giving a correct list of all the hitherto described species, 

 together with generic and specific characters of such as are new. 

 The enumeration will comprise (we understand) the Phanerogamia 

 and Ferns. We should be glad to find, that it includes the lower 

 orders of Cryptogamia also, for there is no man better able to un- 

 dertake the Flora of that Island, or to develope the resources of 

 the Colony. 



The list of species, indigenous to the Island, as contained in the 

 Peradenia Herbarium is nearly 3,000. Dr. J. D. Hooker, assists 

 Mr. Thwaites in determining the correct nomenclature by verifying 

 his species in the magnificent collection at Kew. The description of 

 the new species will be in Latin, but the notice of " uses, &c." in 

 English. Mr. Thwaites is now on a tour through Bintenne and the 

 Eastern parts of the Island, enlarging his knowledge of their vege- 

 table productions, with a view to a general introduction to the 

 Enumeration. 



Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa^ by David 

 Livingstone, LL.D., D. C. L. London, John Murray, Albemarle 

 street, 1857, 8vo. pp. 688. 



