NOTES AND COMMENT 



Professor F. 0. Bower has contributed to the Macmillan Company's 

 Men of Science series a short life of Joseph Dalton Hooker. The book 

 is of particular interest in its portrayal of the intimate relations be- 

 tween Hooker and Darwin, and is calculated to make us realise that 

 the older taxonomists contributed more to the advancement of general 

 biological principles than we of the present generation are apt to credit 

 them with doing. 



The activity of the botanists of Switzerland in investigating the 

 vegetation of their highly diversified country is indicated by the ap- 

 pearance of the seventh contribution published under the auspices of 

 the Phytogeographical Commission of the Swiss Natural History So- 

 ciety. This is a description, by Dr. August Roth, of the vegetation in 

 the vicinity of the Walensee, in the cantons of Glarus and St. Gall. 

 The distributional map which accompanies the paper is one of those 

 splendid pieces of work that it is to be hoped American printers and 

 publishers can one day learn to match. 



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