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^ inch long. I planted them at once in cocoa-nut shells ; they began
to sprout almost immediately, grew very vigorously, and soon pro-
duced flowers.
Luzon, province Albay.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
The Quinolof/y of the East Indian Plantations. By John Eliot
HowAKD, E.L.S., P.K.M.S., E.R.H.S., Member of the Pharma-
ceutical Society of Great Britain, and of the Botanical Society of
France, etc. London :
with three coloured Plates by Tuffen West.
L.
Reeve and Co. 1869. Pp. x. 44,
Seven years have elapsed since the appearance of Mr. Howard's
' Nueva Quinologia of Pavon,' and now we have the above work
fuUy sustaining the author's reputation as an accomplished chemist
and botanist. Mr. Howard is one of those lovers of science, unfortu-
nately by no means numerous, who stick with persevering zeal to the
investigation of a particular branch of inquiry with a view to its eluci-
dation ; and in the present instance, such has been the application of
our author that he is justly considered to be one of the greatest quino-
logists living. • W^ould that others would produce such valuable
monographs on little-known subjects ! and
the result would help to
render economic botany less perplexing to the student than it now is.
The present work treats on the result of the acclimatization of the
CinchoncB in India, under Mr. M'lvor, who is as successful a cultivator
as Mr. Broughton is a quinologist. Mr. Howard well observes of
these gentlemen, " The Indian Government have been fortunate in the
choice of servants to whom the practical carrying out of the details of
this great scheme has been confided, and I am glad to think in this
most recent instance they have been equally successful."
The work consists of four parts. 1. Microscopical Observations on
the Plates; 2. Chemical and Microscopical Investigations ; 3. Appen-
dix ; 4. Addenda et Corrigenda.
In the ' Microscopical Observations ' we have some remarks on the
structure of those barks which have been " renewed," and having an
important bearing on physiological botany. The plates, for the ac-