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 Flora Indica.

We regret to learn that this valuable work is likely to be arrested in its progress, owing to the want of encouragemer.: :. - rirt of the East India Company. Dr«. Thomson and Hooker nn- dertock ine work at their own risk. The first Volume gives an cirnest of what might have heen expected at their hands. The hers are already well known to the scientific world hy their bo- i^cal works, and every one acqaainted with science is aware of their high standing and of their thorough competency for the task they have undertaken. The work is ? national one, and promises to be one of the most important which has appeared in the bota- nical world. It will be the result, in a great measure, of personal observations, aided by the unrivalled resources of the Hookerian Herbarium. That such a boon to science should be stopped for want of funds, and that the authors should sufier pecuniary loss, is by no means creditable to our country. When the Admiralty have most nobly published the results of arctic and antarctic ex- peditions, it is surely not too much to expect that the East India Company, which is so much indebted to the labours of scientific men, should lend a helping hand in making known the vegetable productions of that vast territory over which they rule.

We think that all interested in science should unite in memo- rializing the Company on this surject, and we cannot for a moment doubt that the unanimous voice of scientific so de ties and scienti- fic men will ultimately prevail. — Edinburgh New PhUcsophical Joi :-. : 204. SCIE>'TiriC I}sIELLICtE>'CE, Mines of Antimony. G„ „. - the Home Office may be found srtne interesting correspcn deuce relating to Mines of Antimony. So far back as 1854, Major Hay brought to the notice of the Chief Commissioner of the Punjaub, that he had discovered on the great SLlgree Mountain a vast deposit of metals in granite, cae of