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3. Escape from a Tiger. —Lieut. F. Hughes* of the 7th L. C., was in the act 
of stooping to get a flower from the jungle, about 200 yards from the road-side, 
when he heard a rustling noise behind him. He immediately turned his head to 
see what it was, when he beheld a huge Tiger within a few yards of him. In 
the fright and hurry of the moment, when endeavouring to rise, he trod on the 
skirt of his dressing-gown, and fell backwards. He was at that instant seized 
by the brute, which caught him over the waist-band of his trowsers in its mouth. 
In this position the animal was dragging him, when he got his hand into his 
pocket, and drew out a small double-barrelled pistol, which he placed as direct 
for the Tigers mouth as the position in which he lay would admit, fired, and in 
an instant he was free, for the beast made a tremendous spring forward, carrying 
with it the clothes which it had grasped. 
REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
A Flora of Liverpool. By T. B. Hall. With an engraved Map, and an 
Appendix, containing Meteorological Tables and Observations for the year 1838, 
by Wilson Armistead. London: Whittaker and Co.; Walmsley y Liverpool. 
1839. Post 8vo. pp. 186. 
Mr. Hall follows Professor Henslow’s Catalogue in the arrangement of the 
genera; the only alteration he has made—and that in our estimation a judicious 
one—is in the terminations of the orders, in which respect he has adopted the 
excellent plan of Dr. Lindley, concluding the name of every order with acece y and 
the sub-orders with ece. In so extensive a science as Botany, order and simpli¬ 
city in details, at first sight apparently trifling, is not less necessary, or less likely 
to assist the student, than in more imposing matters. 
The paper on the geological formation of the neighbourhood of Liverpool, by 
the Rev. Thomas Dwyer, is valuable in a book treating of the vegetable produc¬ 
tions of that portion of country, and might perhaps have been enlarged with ad¬ 
vantage, by adding an account of the physical aspect of the surface, and the 
varieties of soil, especially if viewed in connexion with diversities of the vege¬ 
tation. A local Flora is of comparatively little interest to the public, or even to 
botanists non-resident in the tract of country treated of, unless the peculiar fea¬ 
tures of vegetation of the locality are, as far as practicable with our present 
knowledge, traced to their causes, or unless some data are supplied by which 
those causes may be discovered by others. Hence the introduction of Mr. 
Dwyers sketch is an important feature, and would have been still more so had 
it entered further into detail on the subject. 
