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college courses in botany. The Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, another leading journal, is 

 very special in character. There is also much of 

 botanical interest in Science, the leading American 

 scientific journal, which every teacher of scientific sub- 

 jects should certainly read regularly. Of a much 

 more popular character is the Plant World ; and 

 the Asa Gray Bulletin makes a special effort to 

 provide material of value to school-teachers of ele- 

 mentary classes in Botany. To teachers in New 

 England who are studying the New England flora, 

 Rhodora will be indispensable. Particulars as to 

 price, etc., of these journals will be found in the 

 Bibliography at the end of this chapter. Of course 

 there are very numerous special botanical journals, 

 but these mentioned are likely to be of most impor- 

 tance to the American teacher of elementary courses. 

 Sample copies may be obtained of any of them from 

 the publishers. Where the teacher lives near a public 

 library, the authorities can no doubt be induced to 

 add some of these to their reading rooms, and indeed 

 the rarer or more expensive botanical books are often 

 obtainable in this way. 



There will be a place in the teacher's reading, and in 

 that of his students also, for books of a less special 

 character which may be read for both instruction and 

 entertainment. Among such works, one of the very best 

 is Wallace's " Malay Archipelago." Another classic 



