STS 
REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Illustrations of the Botany and other Branches of the Natural History of the 
Himalayan Mountains , and of the Flora of Cashmere. By J. Forbes Royle, 
M.D., V.-P.R.S., F.L.,G., R.A.SS., Professor of Materia-Medica and Therapeutics, 
King’s College, &c. &c. &c. Part X. London : Wm. H. Allen and Co. Royal 
4to. pp. 48, and 10 coloured lithographs. 
Despite the disadvantage of being called upon to pronounce judgment from 
our critical tribunal on the tenth part of any serial publication, we run small 
risk of departing from the truth in conceiving Dr. Royle’s Illustrations to be one 
of those few-and-far-between works so justly styled national. The descriptions 
—including detail respecting structure, habitat, geography, classification, specific 
characters, &c. &c.—are prepared in a manner which would reflect credit on 
any botanist, and which at once stamp Professor Royle as the learned naturalist 
and classical scholar. 
The author does not confine himself to descriptions of species, but renders his 
work of still further value by his original observations on the higher groups. 
The illustrations consist of very spirited lithographs, coloured in a superior 
style. 
Thus far we have ventured. To go further into detail at present, were no less 
unfair to the author than to our own selves. 
It appears by a notice at the commencement of the present part, that “ it is 
proposed to publish a supplementary number, in which will be contained the 
conclusion of the botanical part, together with that of the Introduction, in which 
will be included Essays by Mr. Ogilby and the Rev. F. W. Hope on the mam¬ 
malia and insects of India; with remarks on the general features of the Geology 
and Meteorology of Northern India, and an index to the whole.” 
Until the appearance of the promised riches, then, let all further remarks be 
postponed. 
A Monograph on the Anatidce , or Duck-tribe. By T. C. Eyton, Esq., F.L.S., 
F.Z.S. London: Longman and Co.; Eddowes , Shrewsbury. 1838. 4to, 
pp. 183. 
To those [who know, or are [desirous of learning, something further of the 
Duck-tribe than that it includes several birds whose flesh, artistically cooked, 
is exceeding grateful to the palate, such a volume as Mr. Eyton’s must prove 
