642 Allgemeines. 



Part H gives a very good idea of plant biology. The numerous 

 tables and tabular summaries are a vaiuable feature, since they fix in 

 the mind points learned^ give an idea of the relationship of parts er 

 functions, and furnish suggestions for further work. Besides the di'rections 

 for experiments already noted, good directions for the study of types 

 are given. The illustrations as well as the general make-up of the book 

 are deserving of mention, the former being well chosen, pleasing in 

 appearance, and executed in a vvay which brings out clearly the points 

 desired — a virtue of which some of our text-books cannot boast. 



J. A. Harris. 



Bergen, Joseph Y., Bergen's Botany, Key and Flora. 

 .257 pp. Boston. (Ginn & Co.) 1901. 



A key and flora, describing about 700 species, published in the 

 same volume as the author's Foundations of Botany. The species selected 

 are those to be found in the United States during the latter half of the 

 ordinary school year. The sequence of the families and sonietimes the 

 genera is that of Eich 1er 's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Figures are 

 given to assist in the understanding of some of the difficult types, as 

 Pinus, Iris, Eitphotbia, Ulmiis, Ascieplas, etc. For those who do not 

 care to have the student take up one of the regulär manuals as the source 

 of his Information on the names of plants, the Flora should certainly be 

 serviceable. j. A. Harris. 



Daiber, Alb., Eine Australien- und Südseefahrt. Leipzig 

 (Verlag von B. G. Teubner) 1902. 



Der Hauptzweck des Buches ist eine Erzählung der vom 

 Verf. unternommenen Reise, die aber nicht den Charakter einer 

 Forschungsreise trägt. Nebenbei werden auch populäre Mit- 

 theilungen über Fauna und Flora gegeben, die nicht den An- 

 spruch erheben, dem Fachmann etwas Neues zu bieten. 



K. Goebel. 



The opening of the newBotanical Department at 

 the Glasgow University. (Annais of Botany. Vol. XV. 

 No. LIX. Sep. 1901. p. 551—558.) 



On June 13. 1901, as part of the celebrations on the ninth 

 Jubilee of the University of Glasgow, the new Botanicnl 

 Department was formally opened by Sir Joseph Hooker. 

 The building has cost over 17 000 £, and includes a Lecture 

 Room to seat 250, elementary Laboratory to accommodate 100, 

 an advanced Laboratory, Museum, Herbarium, private rooms, 

 dark rooms etc. Principal Story in opening the proceeding 

 referred to the hereditary connection bi Sir J. Hook er with 

 Glasgow, his father, Sir William Hooker, having been 

 for 20 years the Professor of Botany in Glasgow, while Sir 

 Joseph is himself a graduate of the University. Sir Joseph 

 Hook er gave an address describing his earliest recollections 

 of his father's teaching in Glasgow. Sir Wm. J. Thiselton 

 Dyer, Lord Li st er and Prof. J. B. Balfour also spoke. 



Bower. 



