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some one who had not only the advantage of close personal 

 acquaintance, but, further, the advantage of intimacy of the times. 

 In 1878 he went to Guatemala, and later to Chile and Peru, 

 and, it is said, to South Africa and Madagascar; certainly to 

 Europe. In September, 1883, he returned to the Pacific Coast, by 

 way of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterey, Mexico, and took up 

 his residence in Portland, Oregon, where he taught modern lan- 

 guages in St. Helen's Hall and in Bishop S' l ott Academy. There 

 he lived, honored by all who knew him, until death came, August 

 28, 1897. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 



Plate I. The illustration is copied from an original photograph 

 in the Torrey Album, preserved in the Herbarium of Columbia 

 University, and secured for Erythea, through the kindness of Dr. 

 M. A. Howe. The photograph is said to be a good likeness of 

 Bolander in the days when he was a member of the State Survey. 



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Lessons with Plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting 

 some of the common forms of vegetation. By L. H. Bailey. 

 [MacMillan & Co., New York. $1.10.] 



This volume is a product of the author's active interest in the 

 development of nature-study in the common schools of New York 

 State. It is written largely from a horticulturist's standpoint, and, 

 on that account, is freighted with suggestions of what may be learned, 

 not from the unusual or highly curious, but from common, every-day 

 things. Certainly no book for the schools has appeared in many 

 years in which there is so much new matter. The chapters on "The 

 Struggle for Exisience in a Tree-top," "Knots and Knot-holes," " The 

 Fruit-Spur," "Characters in Winter-Twigs," ''The Eventful History 

 of an Apple-Twifr," are especially fresh and entertaining. Here, too, 

 is abundant opportunity for legitimate play regarding the reason of 

 things. 



Professor Bailey remarks in his preface: "It is often said, that a 

 person may learn a good deal about plants with only a very ordi- 

 nary hand-lens. This is true; but he can also learn a good deal 



