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milar in type and execution. It will be completed in thirty-six li- 
vraisons, forming three folio volumes. It will appear every three 
months. The price of each livraison to subscribers will be five florins 
and a-half. 
Flora Metropolitana, or Botanical Rambles within thirty miles of 
London, intended for the Student in Practical Botany. By DA- 
NIEL COOPER. 12mo. Pp. 139. London, S. HIGHLEY, 1836. 
SCARCELY a " Flora" in the proper acceptation of the name. Par- 
tial lists are given of the species found about particular villages, 
heaths, woods, c. One hundred and fifty places are named, and each 
is followed by a list of the plants which grow near it In a few, the 
most common are even recorded, but generally some of the rarer spe- 
cies only, and the nature of the subsoil is occasionally mentioned. The 
work will be useful to the London botanist as a companion in his ex- 
cursions. A list of the " land and fresh water shells found in the 
environs of London," with the localities of each, is appended to the 
volume. 
The Ornithologist's Text-Book, being Reviews of Ornithological 
Works, with an Appendix containing Discussions on various topics 
of Interest. By NEVILLE WOOD, Esq. 12mo. Pp. 232. Lon- 
don, W. Parker, 1836. 
THE idea of the work is good, and a volume comprising tables of 
the various ornithological systems, and a list of all the works upon 
this branch of Natural History, (either arranged alphabetically or 
chronologically,) with a short analysis of their contents, would be of 
much use to the ornithologist. 
The present work is divided into two parts and a supplement. In 
the first, or "notices of ornithological works," 109 notices are given, 
(the various works of an author being generally placed together ;) 
but they are written much too superficially to be of real use, and 
without a sufficient acquaintance with the works analyzed: some have 
not been seen at all, such as Illiger's most useful prodromus, and it 
is passed with that acknowledgment only. Merrem's " Icones et 
Descriptiones" have not been seen either, and it is scarcely fair to add 
to this acknowledgment, " but it is probably of little or no value at 
the present day ;" and for several of the others a review from another 
work has been substituted for the opinion of the author. Part II. con- 
tains tables of seventeen systems, commencing with that of Willough- 
by, and to its extent this is useful as a reference. The supplement con- 
tainssome additional; notices of books ; " Hints for a new and complete 
