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the public. Both the magazine and the people of Canada are 

 to be congratulated on the aid to science thus given. The 

 United States, though possessed of inhnitely greater wealth 

 than Canada, allows its scientific publications to struggle along 

 as best they can. We constantly boast of our scientific attain- 

 ments, but as a nation we fail to adequately encourage the lines 

 of work that make us great. Rich men endow universities, 

 libraries, hospitals and laboratories, but the scientific press 

 is pretty generally financed by scientific societies whose mem- 

 bers often can ill afford the expense. It will be a great day for 

 science when some person of wealth makes possible a truly 

 great scientific journal by means of a modest subsidy. 



The first tw(3 parts of "Pflanzen-Teratologie" by Dr. O. 

 Penzig has been received from the publishers, Gebruder Born- 

 trager, Berlin W.35, Germany. This is a truly monumental 

 work on abnormal plants for which the author has been gather- 

 ing material for more than twenty-five years. The abnormali- 

 ties discussed fall into more than 150 divisions. The first part 

 of the work is an enumeration of the articles relating to the 

 subject arranged in chronological order under each author's 

 name. Then follows a discussion of these departures from the 

 normal, as ob.served for each species, aranged in systematic 

 sefjuence, the part just received beginning with the Ranuncu- 

 laceae and ending with the Hypericaceae. A more exhaustive 

 treatise of this kind has apparently never been published. The 

 work is in the German language and therefore not as useful 

 on this side as if written in English, but those who read Ger- 

 man will find it a most complete account of abnormal plants. 

 The price of each part is 48 marks. 



