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anonymous author has copied the phy/ical 
defcription of the globe, verbatim, from 
Profeffor K LtuGEL’s valuable Excyclopedia, 
without acknowledging the fource from 
which he has taken it. PLESMANN’s 
¢< Manual of a general Phyfical Geo- 
‘graphy, for the Ufe of Schools and Aca- 
demies,” is likewife, upon the whole, a 
good compilation, though we meet-with 
Several inaccuracies, particularly in the 
geognoftical part of it. ‘“ The New 
Piéture of Vienna,” lately publifhed by 
‘an anonymous author, affords the beft 
and moft correét view of this metropolis, 
fince the “ Sketches,’ by PrEzz1L, ap- 
peared, in the reign of Jofeph II. The 
moft interefting, as well as the moft com- 
prehenfive, of all geographical works 
now carried on in Europe, however, is 
the ‘General Geographical Epheme- 
rides,’ compofed by a fociety of men of 
letters, and edited by F. von Zacu, 
major in the fervice of the duke of Saxe- 
Gotha, and direétor of the ducal obfer- 
vatory at Seeberg, near Gotha. The 
profeffed aim of this work is, “to ferve 
as a repofitory for the aftronomical cbfer- 
vations and difcoveries made in all coun- 
tries, and thus to form a paint of union be- 
tween all the afironomers and obfervatories 
in Europe.’ Of thefe ‘ Ephemerides’ a 
number has appeared every month, fince 
the 1ft of January, 1798, illuftrated occa- 
fiona.ly with maps: and as Mr. v. Z. is 
one of the firft aftronomers of the age, a 
man of profound {kill and indefatigable 
induftry, a man who is already connected 
with the moft diftinguifhed geographers 
of Europe, the public may reafonably ex- 
pect to find, in this publication, one of 
the greaeft defiderata happily accom- 
plifhed*. | 
NATURAL HISTORY 
has lately received many valuable accef- 
fions from the German prefs. T. M. 
BecusTein’s ‘* concife and popular 
Natural Hiftory of foreign and native 
Plants, in two large Volumes Oétavo, 
forming together 1316 pages,” is an ex- 
cellent work, and well adapted to ferve 
as a {chool-book and for private ftudy, and 
to facilitate the acquifition of other fciences.- 
The author has introduced whatever 
is impor antand remarkable in the ve- 
getavle kingdom; he has enumerated 

* The readers of the Monthly Magazine 
will be carefully prefented with every new and 
interefting fact contained in Mr. Zacn’s valu- 
able journal. The letters refpecting the Afri- 
can traveller, Hornemann, contained in cur laft 
mumber, were derived from this fource, 
} 
Retrofpect of German Literature—Natural Hiftory. 
[ Sup. 
with accuracy all the genera of plants, 
at the end of every clafs, and has pro- 
vided the whole work with an ufeful, . 
fyftematic, and an alphabetical index—~ | 
JacosB SturRm’s “ Flora Germanica, ex- 
hibited in Pi€tures drawn from Nature, 
with Defcriptions: II. Part. Numb. ‘1. 
contains the Clafs Grypiogamia, in fix- 
teen coloured Plates, Oétavo,. and an 
equal Number of Leaves of Letter-prefs.”” 
Fidelity in the defcription, accuracy in 
the délineation, and neatnefs in the exe- 
cution of coloured plants, have, perhaps, 
never before been united in fo eminent 
a degree as we find them in this elegant 
publication. A.W. Rorn’s “‘ Remarks 
on the Study of the aquatic Plants of the 
Clafs Cryptogamia,” alfo deferves to be 
mentioned with praife, as it contains 
many ingenious and original hints. One 
of the moft accurate, as well as moft in- 
fiructive,publications on botany isC uRis- 
TIAN SCHKUHR’s “ Botanical Manual,” 
of which we have feen the zoth number, 
containing from the 253d tothe 284th 
plates o€tavo, concluding the third yo- 
lume, that begins with the genera of the 
18th clafs, Polyadelphia, and extends as 
far as the Polygamia neceffaria. The 
author is one of the moft celebrated art- 
ifts inGermany,and holdsa highrank like- 
wife as a botanical obferver. Weare indebt- 
ed to him for many found critical re- 
marks, with which he has greatly en- 
hanced the value of this extenfive publi- 
cation. Another work, equally ufeful, 
though of lefs magnitude, is * The Bota- 
nical Diétionary, or an Attempt to ex- 
plain the principal Ideas and technical 
Terms in Botany,” by Dr. M. B. Borx- 
HAUSEN, in two volumes oéfavo. The 
fhort hiftory of botany given in the fe- 
cond volume, is well calcultated to ini- 
tiate the young tyro in the fludy of that 
fcience ; and throughout the whole 
work, the author fhews, by his original 
remarks on the phyfiology of plants, that 
he has not merely compiled. but well di- 
gefted his materials. “ The. Annals of 
Botany,” by Dr. Pautus UstTeErr, of 
which the 21ft and 22d numbers (or the 
1th and 16th numbers of the new fes 
ries) have lately appeared, and are en- 
riched with feveral fine plates. In this 
collection of botanical effays the author 
communicates his own obfervations, as 
well as thofe of his friends, with a view 
of improving the Linnzan fyfiem. Ma- 
ny of the late difcoveries in that {cience, 
particularly fome made by Hayne, 
Savi, RorH, Host, WiLpenow, 
CAVANILLES, RaMOND, DeEsFon- 
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