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We recommend this book to the notice of all Mycologists, 

 feeling sure that the name of the writer is a sufficient guarantee for 

 the accuracy of its contents. 



Messrs. Swajt Sonnerschem and Co. have favoured us with a 

 number of their "Young Collector's Handbooks." 



These, each in a neat wrapper, are published at one penny, and 

 consist of 32 pages of letter-press, interspersed with a number of 

 engravings. They are written by well-known men of science, each 

 being an authority in his own special department. 



Those already pubUshed are Beetles, Butterflies and Moths, 

 and the Orders of Insects, by W. F. Kirby ; British Birds, by R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe ; Greek and Roman Coins, by Barclay V. Head ; 

 Flowering Plants, by J. Britten ; Shells, by B. B. Woodward ; and 

 Postage Stamps, by W. T. Ogilvie. These are most decidedly 

 wonders of cheap literature, and we trust that all our young friends 

 will lose no time in procuring copies of them. We are glad to learn 

 that others are in course of publication, and it is promised that 

 the series will be very much extended. The perusal of these 

 Penny Handbooks has afforded us much pleasure. 



The Wonders of Plant-Life under the Microscope. By 

 Sophie Bledsoe Herrick, 1884. {London: W. H. Allen and Co.) 



Miss Herrick has put the marvels of Plant-Life in a very agree- 

 able form, and described them in a most interesting manner. The 

 ten chapters into which the work is divided, treat of the Beginning 

 of Life, Single-celled Green Plants, Fungi and Lichens, Liverworts 

 and Mosses, Ferns, Physiology of Plants, Corn and its Congeners, 

 the Microscope among the Flowers, Pitcher Plants, and Insecti- 

 vorous Plants. The Volume comprises 248 pages, and is illus- 

 trated by 85 splendidly executed engravings. 



Baldness and Greyness, their Etiology, Pathology, and 

 Treatment, by Tom Robinson, M.D. Second Edition, Enlarged 

 and Re-written. {London : Henry Kimpton.) 



In this work, the Anatomy and Physiology of the Hair receive 

 the Author's first attention, after which, the colour and texture of 

 the hair is discussed ; then follows a description of the various 

 diseases to which the hair is subject, with their various treatments. 

 To the microscopist the two first chapters will prove of much 

 interest, for although no plates or illustrations are given, the chap- 

 ters are so intelligently written, that a large amount of useful infor- 

 mation will be gained by their perusal. 



