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Histoire de la Chimie. By Maurice Delacre, Membre de 1' Academic Royale 

 de Belgique, Professeur a I'Universite de Gand. Paris : Gauthiers-Villars 

 at Cie, Quai des Grands-Augustins, 55, 1920. (Pp. xv + 632.) 



Practical Plant Biochemistry. By Muriel Wheldale Onslow, formerly Fellow 

 of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Research Student at the John 

 Innes Horticultural Institution, Merton, Surrey. Cambridge : at the 

 University Press, 1920. (Pp. iii + 178.) Price 155. net. 



An Introduction to Palaeontology. By A. Morley Davies, D.Sc, A.R.C.S., 

 F.G.S., Honorary Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Lecturer in 

 Palaeontology, Imperial College of Science and Technology. London : 

 Thomas Murby & Co., i Fleet Lane, Ludgate Circus, E.C.4, 1920. 

 (Pp. xi + 414, with 100 figures.) Price 12s. 6d. net. 



Invertebrate Palaeontology. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils. By 

 Herbert Leader Hawkins, M.Sc, F.G.S., Lecturer in Geology, University 

 College, Reading. London : Methuen & Co., 56 Essex Street, W.C., 

 1920. (Pp. xix + 226, with 16 illustrations.) Price 6s. 6d. net. 



Forest Products : Their Manufacture and Use. Embracing the Principal 

 Commercial Features in the Production, Manufacture, and Utilisation 

 of the Most Important Forest Products other than Lumber, in the United 

 States. By Nelson Courtlandt Brown, B.A., M.F., Professor of Forest 

 Utilisation, the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, Syracuse, New York ; Trade Commissioner, United States Lum- 

 ber Trade Commission to Europe, Department of Commerce, Washington , 

 D.C. New York : John Wiley & Sons ; London: Chapman & Hall, 191 9. 

 (Pp. xix -f 471, with 120 figures.) Price 215. net. 



An Account of the Herbarium of the University of Oxford. By Prof. S. H. 



Vines and G. C. Druce. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1897. (Pp. 



55.) Price 2s. 6d. net. 

 The subject matter of this little volume is divided into two parts, the 

 first of which is a reprint of the " Account " published in 1897. This, it 

 may be remembered, gave a brief epitome of the principal herbaria which 

 the collections comprise. They include those of Bobart {circ. 1670), Dillenius, 

 Sibthorp, Fielding, the British Herbarium initiated by Lawson, and the 

 Cryptogamic Herbarium. Part II enumerates all the more recent additions, 

 and is mainly occupied with a list of the contributors. In addition, there are 

 notes on other Oxford herbaria, and the whole forms a useful index for 

 intending students. 



New Zealand Plants and their Story. By L. Cockayne, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.R.S., 

 Corresponding Fellow Botanical Society of Edinburgh, President of the 

 New Zealand Institute, Hector Memorial Medallist and Prizeman in 

 Botany. Second Edition, rewritten and enlarged. Wellington, N.Z. : 

 By Authority, Marcus F. Marks, Government Printer, 1919- (Pp- 

 XV + 248, with 99 photographs and 14 text-figures.) 



An Introduction to the Study of Cytology. By L. Doncaster, Sc.D., F.R.S., 

 Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Derby Professor of Zoology in the 

 University of Liverpool. Cambridge : at the University Press, 1920. 

 (Pp. xiv 4- 280.) Price 215. net. 



The Heron of Castle Creek, and other Sketches of Bird Life. By Alfred 

 Wellesley Rees, with a Memoir of the Author by J. K. Hudson and a 

 Portrait. London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., 1920. (Pp. 

 2i6.) Price 7s. 6d. net. 



