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REVIEWS. 
instance of condensation in regard to matter and type. When con¬ 
cluded, which will be in the course of a very few weeks, we shall 
take an early opportunity of presenting an analysis of its contents to 
our readers. 
Hong Kong .—Next appeared the Hong Kong Mora, which was 
completed in one volume, by Mr. G. Bentham, F.E.S., previous to 
the appearance of the article on Colonial Floras above alluded to. 
British N. America .—With regard to the British North American 
Colonies, much correspondence has taken place between Sir W. 
Hooker, and the Colonial Office, the Governor General and Governors 
of the Colonies themselves, various scientific and otherwise influen¬ 
tial gentlemen in Toronto, Montreal, and elsewhere, and, finally, 
several of the Commissioners for those Colonies who were present at 
the International Exhibition of 1862. At present all that can be 
reported is, that the feeling in favour of the undertaking is unani¬ 
mous, that the required grant is considered so small as to be no 
obstacle whatever, and that no objection of any kind has been raised. 
For want, however, of some influential person at head-quarters, or 
from some other cause, no action has as yet been taken by the Govern¬ 
ments before whom the proposal lies. The projected Flora would 
include all the British N. American Colonies in one work of two or 
three volumes, requiring a grant of £150. per volume as remuneration 
for the Author, and the purchase on the part of the Colonial G overn¬ 
ments of 100 copies of each volume, (at a price not exceeding £ 1 . per 
copy,) as encouragement to the publisher. The total expense to each 
colony would not thus amount to more than £100, if each con¬ 
tributed an equal quota, and it were spread over some two or three 
years. An annual grant of £40. a piece would cover the whole! 
New Zealand .—The Colonial Government of New Zealand have 
promptly responded to the proposal, and commissioned Dr. Hooker 
to prepare a Manual of the Flora of its territories upon the same 
plan, form, and size, &c., as the Hong Kong Flora, but to include 
the Cryptogamic as well as Flowering plants. This is the more 
liberal on the part of this energetic Colony, as it had on the comple¬ 
tion of the volumes of the Botany of the Antarctic Expedition, which 
described all the New Zealand plants then known, spontaneously 
proposed a grant of 56850. to its author, in recognition of the scien¬ 
tific service he had thereby rendered to the Colony. The Manual 
of the New Zealand Flora is now in progress, and it is hoped that 
a volume will appear in the present year. 
Ceylon .—The Government of this prosperous Colony is, we are 
given to understand, prepared to make the necessary grant for the 
publication of its Flora, whenever the present accomplished Direc¬ 
tor of the Gardens, G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. is ready to undertake 
it. In the meantime that author’s preliminary work, “ Enumeratio 
Plantarum Zeylaniae,” is rapidly approaching completion; the Fi- 
lices being now in the press. 
West African Colonies .—No decided steps have hitherto been 
