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without any lens." That is good doctrine, and the chapters have 

 been constructed with this thought in mind. But why omit a 

 study of exogenous and endogenous stems or of increase in girth in 

 stems, for a comprehension of which no lens is needed? And why 

 for nature-study in the secondary schools retain such chapters as 

 "The Naming of Species" and "The Classification of Species"? 

 For it must be remeznbered / that the book is a series of nature- 

 study-- lessons merely, which have little or no connection one with 

 the other, no attempt^ apparently^ having been made to connect 

 the chapters by any sort of life-history-thread. 



Throughout the book Professor Bailey's forceful style has been 

 charmingly adapted to the matter in hand. There are nearly four 

 hundred and fifty illustrations, of excellent character, and, with the 

 fewest exceptions, original. To teachers engaged in nature-study 

 work the book will be found most attractive. — w. L. J. 



NEWS NOTES AND CURRENT COMMENT. 



Mr. J. B. Davy, of the University of California, has been elected 

 an Associate Member of the International Academy of Geographical 

 Botany, of Paris. 



Mr. J. W. Blankinship, an assistant of Professor Goodale, at 

 Harvard University, has been appointed Botanist to the Montana 

 Agricultural College. 



Stanford University, at its June commencement, conferred 

 upon Mr. Walter Shaw, Instructor in Botany in that institution, the 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 



Mr. E. 0. Wooton, who has been spending two years in graduate 

 work at Columbia University, returns this year to the professorship 

 of Botany in the Agricultural College of New Mexico. 



Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, a student of plant variation, died in 

 July, at his home in Framingham, Mass. He was most widely 

 known, perhaps, for his extensive experiments upon maize, his clas- 

 sification of the agricultural species being of great value to botanists 

 as well as agriculturists. 



