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a Liane, has, when in a condition where it can freely extend 
itself, the usual symmetrical wood-structure. But Uttewall * 
observed a stem of this plant flattened into a band-like form, 
arising from pressure against the angle of a wall, which form it 
still retained after it had grown up far beyond it, so that the 
numerous shoots afterwards developed all partook more or less 
of this character. 
[As somewhat relating to the present subject, may be men- 
tioned a curious fact lately pointed out by Prof. A. E. Ross- 
massler. He states that the Pirs are subject to a peculiarity in 
the growth of their wood which causes them to split obliquely 
instead of perpendicularly, and that this occurs, for instance in 
Pinus sylvesiris, throughout whole estates, in Bavaria, and it is 
necessary to raise young plants from foreign healthy seed, since 
the seeds of these twisted flrs inherit the peculiarity of the wood. . 
— Pep.'] 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
Rare and Remarkable Animals of Scotland, represented from living 
Subjects ; with practical Observations on their Nature. By Sir 
John Graham Dalyell, Bart. Volume first, containing fifty- 
three coloured Plates. London ; John Van Voorst, Paternoster 
Row, 1847. 4to. Pp. 270. 
We could wish that this noble volume was in the hands of every 
one of our readers. It is, always excepting Ellis’s ‘ Essay on Coral- 
lines,’ the most valuable contribution to Zoophytology ever made by 
one individual, and contains more that is true and of interest in the 
economy of zoophytes than any other work hitherto published. 
The name of Sir John Graham Dalyell has been familiar to the 
naturalists of Scotland for nearly half a century. He first introduced 
himself to their notice by a translation of some of the ph)^siological 
writings of Spallanzani, a naturalist of congenerous dispositions with 
himself; and he subsequently became better knowm by his valuable 
contributions to our national Encyclopaedias, and by his little book 
on the Planarice, the most interesting by far of any publication on 
this family of worms. But beyond his native country Sir John was 
scarcely knowm until after the meeting of the British Association in 
Edinburgh in 1834, w’hen the naturalists of England even were taken 
by surprise on finding one unbruited, — an accomplished scholar and 
learned antiquary, — w’ho had studied natural history in a more phi- 
losophical spirit, and wdth a less selfish love, than any more blazoned 
compeer, and who had learned much in the school of nature of wdiat 
was secret and hidden to others. Henceforth this quietly perse- 
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