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The book is arranged in 1 5 divisions, embracing the following 

 sections, viz. : — i. — Science Generally; £<?., Societies occupying 

 themselves with several branches of Science, or with Science and 

 literature jointly. 2. — Mathematics and Physics. 3. — Chemistry 

 and Photography. 4. — Geology, Geography, and Mineralogy. 

 5. — Biology, including Microscopy and Anthropology. 6. — Eco- 

 nomic Science and Statistics. 7. — Mechanical Science and Archi- 

 tecture. 8. — Naval and MiHtary Science. 9. — Agriculture and 

 Horticulture. 10. — Law. 11. — Medicine. 12. — Literature. 

 13. — Psychology. 14. — Archaeology. 15. — Foreign Societies. 

 Under the first fourteen sections will be found accounts of more 

 than five hundred Societies actually engaged in original research 

 in the United Kingdom. The 15th section comprises a list of 

 over 1,400 scientific bodies prosecuting their studies in foreign 

 countries. 



From the care taken by the compilers to secure particulars 

 respecting our own little Society, we have no hesitation in stating 

 that we believe every precaution has been taken to ensure accuracy. 



Plant-Life. Popular Papers on the Phenomena of Botany, 

 by Edward Step, author of " Easy Lessons in Botany," etc. Third 

 edition. {London: T. Fisher Unwin.) 



This book, written in a very popular style, contains chapters on 

 Microscopic Plants, Plant Structure and Growth, The FertiUsation 

 of Flowers, Predatory Plants, Remarkable Leaves, About a Fern, 

 The Folk-Lore of Plants, Plants and Animals, About Mosses and 

 Lichens, Plants and Planets, About Horsetails, Stoneworts, and 

 Pepperworts, The Falling Leaf, About Fungi, Algae, to which is 

 added as an Appendix, a Table of the Cryptogamia or Flowerless 

 Plants. 



The work contains 156 illustrations by the author, but we 

 are compelled to suppose that they were not engraved for the 

 present work, as we find that no notice is taken in the text of a 

 great number of reference-letters by which the engravings are sup- 

 posed to be explained. There is a chapter on Plants and Planets 

 and Plant Folk-Lore, which tells much of the strange beliefs of an 

 inexact and superstitious age. 



Geological Rambles Round London, with 25 illustrations 

 and sketch-maps. {London : T. Fisher Unwin.) 



This is one of the " Half-Holiday Handbooks," and contains 

 in a compact form a great deal of information in reference to Old- 

 World London, the object of the work being to condense into a 

 small compass some description of the geological features of 



