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a shrewd observer, an acute reasoner, and an ardent student. He used those 
powers to considerable advantage, in correlating a number of facts in natural 
and physical science, and in doing so he considerably advanced human know- 
ledge. But he does not deserve the fulsome epithets applied to him by the 
writer. He was a man with a wonderful gift of intellect and an immense 
experience, but it is very certain that he might have achieved far more with 
both than he effected. "We would remind Mr. Schwarzenberg that the 
author of the great treatise on Physio-philosophy did not spell his name 
“ Oaken,” and that Physiology did not make its “ first appearance ” in the early 
days of his much-belauded idol. 
THE TREASURY OF BOTANY* 
T HE two volumes which constitute this work contain a store of botanical 
information such as, we venture to say, is not to be found in any 
other treatise of the kind. There are nearly twelve hundred pages of closely 
printed matter relating to plants, of all sorts and all countries. It is not 
the species of work that one would take up for light reading, but it certainly 
is an admirable book of reference. Edited by Mr. Moore and the late Dr. 
Bindley, we have every guarantee of its general accuracy ; and although it 
does not include all the members of the vegetable kingdom in its lucid and 
terse descriptions, there are few plants of importance which do not find a 
place in its pages. It comprises a short history of all those genera 
which are known to possess interest on account of their medicinal or 
economic uses. Those species, too, which are admired for their beauty as 
garden plants have not been omitted. The space devoted to each genus is 
necessarily limited, but the numerous plates and intercalated woodcuts clear 
up any difficulties in which the brevity of the descriptions might otherwise 
have involved the reader. The “ Treasury of Botany” is essentially a library 
book, and we have much pleasure in recommending it to our readers. 
A Year-Boolc of Facts in Science and Art. By John Times, F.S.A. 
(London : Lockwood, 1866). — Mr. Timbs is a wonderful compiler. In the 
present instance, however, he has not displayed his excellence in this direction 
to the best possible advantage. With the aid of “ scissors and paste,” he has 
put together a number of scientific paragraphs cut from various journals, 
* u The Treasury of Botany : a Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable 
Kingdom. With which is incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms.” 
Edited by John Bindley, Ph. D., F.R.S., and Thomas Moore, F.L.S. Two 
vols. London : Longmans & Co. 1866. 
