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Scientific Intelligence, [no. 2, new series. 



Flora Indie a. 



We regret to learn that this valuable work is likely to be ar- 

 rested in its progress, owing to the want of encouragement on the 

 part of the East India Company. Drs. Thomson and Hooker un- 

 dertook the work at their own risk. The first Volume gives an 

 earnest of what might have been expected at their hands. The 

 authors are already well known to the scientific world by their bo- 

 tanical works, and every one acquainted with science is aware of 

 their high standing and of their thorough competency for the task 

 they have undertaken. The work is a 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 suffer 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 jule. 



We think that all interested in science should unite in memo- 

 rializing the Company on this subject, and we cannot for a moment 

 doubt that the unanimous voice of scientific societies and scienti- 

 fic men will ultimately prevail. — Edinburgh New Philosophical 

 Journal, Vol V.,p. 204. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



Mines of Antimony. 



On the table at the Home Office may be found some interesting 

 correspondence 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 Shigree Mountain a vast deposit of metals in granite, one of 



