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REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLILICATIONS. 
Henry Duncan, D. D. Edinburgh : Oliphant and Son. 1837. fcap 8vo. pp. 410 
each. 
In a former number (Vol. I. p. 274) we took occasion to make favorable notice 
of the first volume of this series, on Winter ; in the two parts now lying beside 
us we are happy to observe the same philosophic and kindly spirit running 
throughout Dr. Duncan’s pages. The books are written with an earnestness 
and an originality highly creditable to the reverend author, and must surely 
prove interesting to every admirer of Nature. Pressure of matter in other de¬ 
partments alone prevents us from analyzing the volumes, and from presenting our 
readers with the extracts we had marked; but we are convinced the work must 
obtain an extensive circulation. 
The Botanist. Monthly. Nos. iv. & v., April and May. London: Groom- 
bridge. 
This publication, conducted by the well-known botanists, Mr. Maund and 
Prof. Henslow, has already been so enthusiastically received by the critical and 
reading public, that we need only observe, that both illustrations and letter-press 
fully maintain the high character so universally admitted to belong to the former 
parts of the work. 
An Analysis of the British Ferns and their Allies. By George W. Francis; 
London : Simpkin & Co. 1837. 8vo. pp. 68. 
The arrangement of this work is excellent, all the species of this interesting 
tribe of plants being included, with illustrative copper-plates of the genera, va¬ 
rieties, &c. The introduction contains much valuable matter, and the author has 
been assisted in his somewhat difficult task by several eminent and enterprising 
botanists. The treatise is inscribed to Sir W. J. Hooker, and appears to us 
altogether indispensable to the student of the British Ferns. On a large sepa¬ 
rate sheet, the author has sent us the third edition of a Catalogue of the British 
Flowering Plants and Ferns^ the value of which, being well and clearly drawn 
up, every botanist will be able to appreciate. 
1. A History of British Birds, indigenous and migratory. By W. MacGil- 
LivRAY, A. M., F R. S. E. Vol. I. London : Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1837. 
8vo. pp. 631. 
2. Journal of a Horticultural Tour through Germany, Belgium, and Part 
of France, in the Autumn ^1835. By James Forbes, A. L. S., &c. London : 
Ridgway and Sons, 1837. 8vo. p. p. 164. 
3. Annual Beport of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and 
Antiquarian Society,for 1836. Shrewsbury: John Davies, High Street. 1837. 
pp. 47. . 
Books with the above titles are published, and will be further noticed in our next . 
A Flora of Shropshire, by Mr* W. A, Leighton, is preparing for publication. 
