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combination of scientific spirit with attractiveness of 

 style, is Geddes's " Chapters in Modern Botany." An- 

 other is Sir John Lubbock's " Flowers, Fruits, and 

 Leaves," devoted to some of the most attractive of 

 ecological problems. Another is Sargent's recent 

 " Corn Plants." Another, concerned mainly with physi- 

 ological topics, is Arthur and MacDougal's " Properties 

 of Living Plants." A very modest and little-known 

 book of ecology is Dr. Gray's " How Plants Behave." 

 Of this character, too, are the chapters in Kerner and 

 Oliver's " Natural History of Plants," a superbly illus- 

 trated four-volume work, which is a perfect treasury of 

 ecological information and suggestion. It must be used 

 with some caution, however, since its author is over- 

 sanguine at times in his discovery of adaptations where 

 others have not been able to see them. But caution is 

 necessary in reading all books, and it is needful ever to 

 remember that a thing is not necessarily true because 

 even the best book says it is. Another volume of 

 botanical essays full of interest and suggestiveness, 

 dealing with evolutionary topics, is Bailey's " Survival 

 of the Unlike," and indeed one may well bring the same 

 author's " Lessons with Plants " into books of this class, 

 especially for young people. Such books should be in 

 every school library, and students allowed the freest 

 access to them. The above list by no means includes 

 all good books of this sort, but only some of the best 

 of them, and all grades exist from these down to good 



