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MISCELLANY, 
we feel much pleasure in calling the attention of our readers—professional as wel^ 
as general—to the practical tendency of the treatise, founded on the author s 
experience. The illustrative plates are extremely well executed, and the facts 
stated and cases enumerated cannot but be useful to the medical practitioner. 
We would especially point out the two concluding chapters, as containing 
important matter for consideration, and which, singularly enough, have been 
overlooked by the majority of our editorial brethren. 
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 
A second edition of Mr. Henry Taylor’s Bee-Keepers Manual (the first 
impression of which is reviewed in our Vol. III., p. 393) has lately appeared.-— 
A little volume entitled The Authors Printing and Publishing Assistant will 
receive early notice. 
CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES. 
BOTANY. 
Exudation of Sap from the Ash-tree. —On the 13th of April instant, and 
the following days, a large quantity of sap—to the amount, probably, of a bucket¬ 
ful, or more—was observed to flow from the upper branches of an Ash-tree at 
Campsall. The circumstance must have been occasioned by the sudden rise of 
sap caused by the first warm day in Spring. If any branch had previously been 
accidentally broken, this exudation would be a necessary consequence; but 
probably it might take place in an otherwise uninjured limb.— Ed. 
Botanical Lectures at Tewkesbury. —Mr. Edwin Lees has recently 
delivered a course of three lectures, at the Town Hall, Tewkesbury, to a 
numerous and respectable audience of the friends and members of the Literary, 
Scientific, and Mechanics’ Institution of that town, “ On the Phenomena apparent 
in the Vegetable Kingdom." We should augur favourably respecting the advance 
of Botany in this country had we a few more such lecturers as Mr. Lees.—Ed. 
Introduction of the Orange-tree into Portugal.—Camoens is said to have 
introduced the Orange into Portugal. “Yes!” said Camoens, apostrophising the 
fragrant little grove that waved before the open casement, “ I have made a bower 
