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subject of his Volume ; but we cannot follow him further. In taking leave of this 
work, let us hope to have the pleasure of early welcoming a third, edition of 
the same excellent and most instructive treatise* 
Vegetable Organography ; or, an Analytical Description of the Organs of Plants. 
By M. Aug. P. De Candolle. Translated by Boughton Kingdon. With 
Plates. London: Houlston and Stoneman, 65, Paternoster-Bow. Part. i. 
February, 1839. pp. 48. 8vo. 
We are very glad that there is at length a prospect of our possessing a good 
English version of De Candolle’s Organography and Physiology , for the latter 
will be commenced at the conclusion of the former. There will of course be 
difference of opinion respecting the views of De Candolle in physiology and 
classification; but every candid botanist will unhesitatingly admit that he claims 
a place among the most philosophic naturalists of the present day. Thus far 
the translation appears to be good, and the lithographic illustrations are neatly 
executed. We shall probably notice the work again at a future time. It will 
be published in monthly numbers, uniform with Van Voorst’s zoological series. 
The Meteorologist; or a Daily Account of the Weather. And a complete 
Almanack for 1839. Being the 3rd after Bissextile, and the 2nd and 3rd of the 
Reign of her Gracious Majesty, Victoria I. By W. J. Simmonite, Teacher of 
Mathematics, and Author of the Meteorological Tables which appear weekly in 
the Sheffield Iris. Second edition. London: J. Limbird, 143, Strand; A . 
Whitaker , Sheffield. 12mo. pp. 36. 
Weather-prophesying appears, truly, to be a profitable, or at all events a 
favourite , calling at the present time. Mr. Simmonite gives great latitude to his 
terms, as, e. g. :— 44 Changeable. —A day in which dullness, brightness, rain or 
fair, or any two of these phenomena , occur.” Nor are 44 seasonable” and 44 plea¬ 
sant” remarkably explicit predications, even in connexion with our prophet’s 
44 explanations.” Yet, with these circumstances in his favour, we cannot discover 
any thing in Mr. Simmonite’s Almanac to warrant the belief that his skill is 
overpowering in this branch of science. We are fully aware that, in thus 
expressing our individual opinion, we run the risk of being classed among those 
44 illiterate and ignorant” persons against whom our author’s preface indulges in 
so eloquent an appeal. Mr. Simmonite’s prognostications of the weather appear 
weekly in the Sheffield Iris , where he is 44 author of the Meteorologist /’ and in 
the latter publication, lo! he appears as author of the tables in the Sheffield 
Iris! In his third edition we would suggest to the author the following title, 
