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view; and, even in treating of the well-known Marchantia, lie forgets to 
tell us, that for curing a “ cold,” or “ binding of the heart,” it is the 
sovereign’st thing on earth. Whether this be the case or not, we think 
there are few of our readers who will study this introduction but will unite 
in saying, with an eminent botanist—“ In the economy of man they form 
but an insignificant part; but in the economy of nature, how vast an 
end!” 
We have the greatest pleasure in strongly recommending this work. 
Let our readers but obtain a copy of it, together with a penknife and a 
good Codington lens, and they will be enabled to find fresh interest in 
their daily walks—whether they be on the mountain-tops, or by the river’s 
side—yes, even on the wall-top, and on the garden-walk, they will find 
plenty to instruct both their eye and heart. They will, doubtless, have a 
large field open to them, as there is no spot on the surface of our globe 
more highly favoured with the mosses than the British Isles ; and some of 
them may be found all the year round. If they be collected in boggy 
ground—a favourite locality—the collector should beware lest he “ fall into 
a peat-hole,” and come home in a most deplorable plight, with a loss of 
all his mossy treasures, and a great addition to his accustomed weight. 
We have instructions for raising some of the Musci by seed ; but, by some 
mistake, we have none for preserving them—however, this is very easily 
done. 
We think naturalists, in general, should thank the publisher of this 
series of popular natural history, and we think botanists, in particular, 
should welcome this charming addition to its numbers. The plates are 
drawn by Fitch, and represent 55 different species. With their aid, we 
have no doubt, beginners will be able to make good progress in naming 
their collections. 
Catalogue of British Marine Polyzoa in the British Museum. 
With Plates. Parts I. & II. 8vo. By George Busk, F.R.S., &c., &c. 
Since the publication of Dr. Johnston’s Monograph, which must ever be 
valued by the student of our native zoophytes as the authority to which 
he will most naturally refer, the naturalist has received no so welcome boon 
in connection with these but too long neglected classes as the present work, 
for which we are indebted to the zeal and liberality of the Trustees of the 
British Museum, and we gladly hail it as a proof of the rapid advance which 
has been made, within the last few years, in zoophytological science, and as 
