284 REVIEAVS. 



Lessons in Structure, Life, and Growth of Plants. By 

 Alphonso Wood, A.M., Ph.D., revised and edited by Oliver R. Willis, A.M., 

 Ph.D. 8vo. pp. iv. — 220. (New York: The American Book Co. 1890,) 



The botanical student will find this work almost invaluable. The lessons 

 are so arranged that the learner may commence either with the flower and so 

 lead through structural botany up to the seed, or he may begin with the second 

 part. Physiological botany, which treats of the cells and vessels tliat build up 

 plants and trees. There are upwards of 500 engravings in the text. 



History of Mexico. Vol. II L By Hubert Howe Bancroft- 



8vo, pp. XV. — 780. (San Francisco : The History Publishing Co.) 



We have frequently had the pleasure of noticing these fine volumes by the 

 celebrated historian. The volume before us deals with the history of Mexico 

 between the years 1600 and 1803, and traces very minutely the course of 

 commercial enterprise under the various government administrations, the 

 details being given in the author's well-known interesting style, so that the 

 reader is led on without experiencing the weariness often felt in reading dry 

 details. 



Journal of Morphology. Edited by CO. Whitman and 



Edward Phelps Allis, junior. Vol. III., No. 3. (Boston, U.S.A. : Ginn and 

 Co. London : W. P. Collins.) 



This number completes the third volume of this important work, and 

 consists of the following papers : — The Embryology of the Earth-worm, by 

 Edmund B. Wilson ; the Morphology of the Ribs and the Fate of the Actinosts 

 of the Median Fins in Fishes, by Dr. G. Baur ; the Morphology of ihe 

 Vertebrate Skull, by Dr. G, Baur ; and on the position of Chanuca in the 

 System by R. W. Shufeldt. This part contains 7 finely executed lithographic 

 folding plates. 



The Stories of the Trees. By Mrs. Dyson. Crown 8vo, 



pp. 272. (London: T. Nelson and Sons. 1890.) 



Our young friends who are fortunate enough to read this book are sure to 

 derive much pleasure and instruction from it. Some twenty-five of our native 

 trees are described. There are several full-page plates and a number of smaller 

 illustrations showing the leaf, flower, and fruit of most of the trees. 



Timbers and How to Know Them. By Dr. Robert Hartig, 

 translated by William Somerville, D.CEc. , B. Sc. , F. R. S.E. , etc. i2mo, 

 pp.83. (Edinburgh: David Douglas. 1890.) 



This handy little volume will help one with ease and certainty to identify 

 timbers, and at the same time give a concise account of their composition. It 

 contains twenty-two illustrations, which represent radial and transverse 

 sections of wood. Many of the radial section are magnified a hundred times; 

 the transverse are mostly magnified five times- Seventy-six species of wood 

 are described. 



The Birds of Essex : A Contribution to the Natural 

 History of the County. By Miller Christy, F. L.S. 8vo, pp. viii. — 302. 

 (Chelmsford: Durrant and Co. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1890.) 



This very interesting work forms the second of the " Essex Field Club 

 Special Memoirs " and contains Biographical Notices of the principal Essex 

 Ornithologists ; Notices of the Chief Essex Bird Collections ; Migration 

 Tables; Hawks and Hawking in Essex in the Olden Time; Wild Fowl decoys 

 and Wild Fowling in Essex ; and Catalogue of the Birds of Essex. It is a 

 valuable contribution to our knowledge of the ornithology of the county, and 

 contains 162 illustrations of birds drawn to scale. 



