146 THE PLANT WORLD. 



In consequence of the resolution then adopted, the general 

 session of the association at Breslau in 1904, took up the topic, 

 '* Report and Debate on the Instruction in Mathematics and the 

 Natural Sciences in the Higher Schools." All the questions in- 

 volved were referred to a commission. 



Two of the governing principles which it set up are the fol- 

 lowing : 



I. The commission wishes that instruction in the higher schools 

 be neither one-sidedly linguistico-historical, nor one-sidedly 

 mathematico-scientific. 



II. The commission recognizes mathematics and the natural 

 sciences as of equal culture value with the languages and ad- 

 heres to the principle of specific general culture in the higher 

 schools. 



The reports on the natural sciences call for more time in these 

 subjects even in the classical schools, at least while, as at present, 

 these schools far outnumber the others, and consequently their 

 graduates in all influential walks of life furnish the great major- 

 ity of those taking the lead. The commission calls for three 

 hours weekly throughout five years in physics, two hours weekly 

 for four years in chemistry and two hours weekly for nine years 



in the biologic sciences (and geologv). 



C. S. G. 



REVIEWS. 



A'Otes oil the Life History of British Flozvering Plants* by 

 Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock) is a compendious treatise 

 bringing together a large number of observations and results of 

 study by the author who has long been known as a student of 

 the natural history of plants by his previously published works, 

 such as Flowers, Fruits and Leaves, Buds and Stipules, etc. The 

 field of such studies is one which, while it calls for much critical 

 attitude, is yet one which might very well be cultivated by many 

 persons who desire to investigate problems of plant life, but who 

 are not situated so that they may use a laboratory. Well as the 

 flora of Great Britain is known. Lord Avebury's book shows us 



* 450 pp., 8vo. London : Macmillan and Co. 1905. $5.00. 



