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He Q. Cenit and Q. Bohur are found only in the northern region, or imitiedi- 
ttlv adjoining it, and nowhere in the interior of Spain. Hie common chestnut 
pow naturally only in Asturias and Galicia, and in a small and doubtful locality in 
4f middle range between the Castiles. 
The Ash oftbe middle region is the winch in the northern 
:^n s replaced by the couuDoa F. excelrtoi* of the north ol fciurope. 
Of die PiDt’s, the highest in point of habitat is the ol the ITiijh I’vrc- 
»w, div P. »^keeiri$, found in the central or Giiadarrama range, and that of the 
jitfrad? Cuenca; the P. ffirpanfeo of tlie author, a beautiful species, so far a* i® 
onira, peculiar to Spain, till introduced to Britain by the author in 1832. Ihc 
t. IVurtw, P. Pinfa and P. arc spread over wide localities of the. middle 
wlioothcrn regiou, the Pinaster also occupying large tracts of the northern Moe, 
aBd extending through the Peoias ala. Of the Jihka, the .f#. pec/wia/a is the more 
twnmcfl and widely spread 5 and in one locality near Malaga is the newly-discovered 
frttes fiibt annooncetl by the author in 1834, ji. Pinaafo. 
Tbeothcr genera arc cursorily treated, but require less notice, as the paper 
•HI liepulilimed ill exTcMO in iIk Ashraolcan Transactiuns. 
Tbf localities princtpally rnentioned are the upland plains of the Castilcs and 
hlimailura, the Pyrenees’, the Cantabrian range along the Bay of Biscay, the Sierra 
linidarraina. Sierra de Guadalupe, Sierra Murena, Sierra Nevada, and Serratua 
* Rondi, Sierra de Cuenca, &c. 
anther called the attention of botanists and others to the procuring acorns 
^limoaka of Italy, and other localities of the south of Europe, more especially 
ftoM of the vast forests in the Roman, Neapolitan, Dalmatian and Grecian 
'•fitories, in order if possible to give a synoptic view of this interesting brunch of 
^isl history. 
Ofi ilip. Oaks to he found in the Italkm Penijisula. 
-%Capt. WiDDniNGTON, R.N., F.H.S. 
Sinre the paper hv the author on the Spanish forests was read and the conversa- 
m fftUowed it took place, it has occurroil to the writer that it would be very dcsi- 
if such members as may have llic opportunity, either personally or by the 
^tancfl of their friends, would cuntributo to collecting accurate informatiou re- 
the species of oak wliicli arc indigenous in the Italian peninsula; more 
that the acorns and plants of what is called Quercua Jjiennina should be 
'Wcctftl and sent to the Horticultural Society or to Kew Gardens, and also tliat 
information should be obtained of the species forming the extensive forests 
weany and the conterminous Roman state, those of the Abruzzi and of the 
the vicinity of Portod’Afizo, and of those in the kingdom of Naples near 
*rmano, and those which supply the building materials at Castelmare. 
Zcatc^ 0 ^ the Potato from f/te rttighhourhood of Oxford, commu7ii- 
cated by the Hev. N. Young, of Neio Colkye. 
MEDICAL. 
0« the Forces concurring in the Phanomcna of Human Life, 
j By W. Addison, M.D., F.R.S. 
m Wony with the views of Whewell and Herschel, 
*wneB. he employs the term force, as capable of originating new p ® 
things conform or yield to its influence, proposes, accoidmg 
Itti, the same authors, by an appropriate classification of facts, to lay e 
hirces which concur in tlie phsenomcna of hummi li e. 
classification of human knowledge under the heads of-- 
y calScicnces; 2, Vegetable Physiology; 3, Animal Physiology; 4,Moral and 
