We thank Cantabrigienfis for furnishing another authority for the verb heir, in the following letter to the Reviewers: "Gentlemen, "Although your obfervations on the uncouthness of the verb "heir," as mentioned in the Review for Auguft, page 156, are undoubtedly true, yet the following paffage, which has fince occurred to me, and had escaped your notice, together with Dryden's authority, will more fatisfactorily justify its use on particular occafions. "From him defcended good Eunæus heir'd I am, } Pope's II. 23. v. 871, &c. Your conftant Reader, ++ The letter from the author of a Critique on the poetical Effays of the Rev. William Atkinson, is acknowledged. The writer feems to have imagined that Mr. A.'s poems have not yet been noticed in our Review; but he will find a brief account of them in our No. for September laft, p. 242. He appears, therefore, to have been premature in the note, p. 8. of his publication. Mr. Swayne requests that we would give our reafons for faying, p. 468, in our December Review, that the Box, Birch, and Alder, are not of the fame natural order with the Mulberry' When a Botanist speaks of natural orders, he uses that denomination, in contra-diftinction to all other orders that are artificial. The natural orders were firft pointed out in the Philofophia Botanica. They have been published in many fubfequent works, and, lately, by the Litchfield Society. Mr. Swayne is perfectly right in faying, that the Box, Birch, and Alder, are in the fame clafs and order, in the Linnean Syftem, with the Mulberry: and, had he thus expreffed himself, we should then have fpared the obfervation. The Box is of the 38th natural order, Tricocca; the Birch and Alder of the 50th, Amentacea; and the Mulberry of the 52d, Scabrida. END OF VOL. LXXVII. Errata in this Appendix, P. 528, line 2. read occasioned by the tides. P. 544. l. 6 fr. bot. put a comma after yet. (2.581. 1.12. for a fuller review, r. a fuller examination. "P.549.l. 28. for unwillingly, &. unw wittingly. |