Quarantine and the plague: being a summary of the report on these subjects, recently addressed to the Royal Academy of Medicine in France / [by R.C. Prus]; with introductory observations, extracts from Parliamentary correspondence, and notes.

  • Gavin Milroy
Date:
1846
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Credit: Quarantine and the plague: being a summary of the report on these subjects, recently addressed to the Royal Academy of Medicine in France / [by R.C. Prus]; with introductory observations, extracts from Parliamentary correspondence, and notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bvo., Price £2 5s. with accompanying Volume of above 100 Plates, Illustrating the various Species, coloured, A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH FRESHWATER ALGiE, INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DESMIDEiE AND DIATOMACE2E. BY ARTHUR H. HASSALL, F.L.S., M.R.C.S.E., h. Containing a complete account of the Modes of Reproduction, Growth, Vitality, Distri¬ bution, Uses, Classification, and Species of this most extensive and interesting Class of Plants; in which the Author has been favoured with the co-operation of several Naturalists eminent for their Cultivation of this Department of Natural History. CRITIQUES. “ LANCET. “We reluctantly take leave of the instructive monograph of Mr. Hassall, and in doing so we recommend his History of the British Fresh Water Algje, as the best and indeed the only guide extant, to the study of this neglected, and we fear somewhat contemned por¬ tion of our Flora. “ We must not omit to notice the volume of plates with which the work is accompanied ; they are coloured, and well executed on Zinc, by the Author himself, and add to the beauty and intrinsic value of the work.” “ ANNALS OF NATURAL HISTORY, December, 1845.' “We consider the publication of this work as likely to promote in a great degree, the study of the Freshwater Algae of Britain, a tribe which, owing to its great obscurity, and the want of good magnified figures, has been almost universally]neglected by our botanists. “The figures contained in Mr. Hassall’s work will be found of the utmost value to the student of this curious tribe of plants. “ As a whole, there can be no doubt of its author being possessed of very considerable abilities, more especially of extensive powers of discrimination.” “ MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL REVIEW, January, 1846.” “ Countless as are the works which daily, and almost hourly, teem from the press, the number of those which justly lay claim to originality, and which, in any considerable degree advance the knowledge of the subject of which they treat, is proportionately small indeed. To this small number of original publications, that now before us pre-eminently belongs, it abounding in records of new and curious facts and productions. “ The style of the work is as popular and as pleasing as the nature of the subject admits of. There is a lengthened and valuable introduction, in which the subjects of growth, nu¬ trition, and reproduction, are treated generally, as well as under the different headings into families, lesser chapters, in which these processes are described more in detail. “ In conclusion, we would observe of Mr. Hassall’s laborious and curious work, that it supplies a very great desideratum, not merely in the natural history of this country, but of the world at large ; and that, from the circumstance of the Algse forming so close a connect¬ ing link between the animal and vegetable kingdoms, one not less necessary to the zoologist than the botanist.” London : S. HIGHLEY, 32, Fleet Street; and H. BAILLIERE, 219, Regent Street. EdinburghSUTHERLAND and KNOX, 58, Princes Street.