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helpful remarks towards the identiUcatlon of the species or varieties, 

 except in the case of the latter where they occur in addition to their 

 types. 



It would have been an improvement if the headings to tlie pages 

 had given the order and genus dealt with thereon instead of a weari- 

 some repetition of the title of the work ; the index is to orders and 

 genera only, with the English names of such species as have them. 

 The latter, however, are not included in the body of the work, and 

 their introduction is superfluous, as the Report is written in strictly 

 botanical, not in popular, style. 



The printing and paper are clear and good, and the book appeals 

 to the eye, the slight defects pointed out not being of sufficient 

 importance to mar its utility. Four photographs of scenery ilhis- 

 trate the work ; there is- also a good bibliography and a useful " list 

 of new names and new combinations." 



A. H. W.-D. 



Sturtevanfs Notes on JEcT»bl& Plants. Edited by N. P.. HEDiRiCEi. 

 Albany : J. B. Lyon Co., 1919. Large 4to, cloth, pp. G86, 



This handsome and well-printed volume, which forms the secoml 

 part of vol. 2 of the Annual Report of the U.S. Departmient of 

 Agriculture, was prepared by its editor from the MSS, left by 

 Edward Lewis Sturtevant when he iretired in 1&87, from' the direc- 

 torate of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. Born at 

 Boston in Januai-y 1842, he graduated M.D. at Harvard in 186(3,. 

 and in the following year settled at South Framlingham, Mass.,, 

 where he conducted the series of experiments in agriculture, with 

 which his name has become associated. The biography prefixed tO' 

 tlie volume shows that Sturtevant's first experiments were connected 

 with cattle, but from 1883 he devoted himself more particularly 

 to plants, and especially to Maize, the study of which, from both 

 botanical and agricultural points of view, he continued up to his 

 death in 1898. His researches in economic botany found tlieir fullest 

 expression in tlie series of papers on " The History of Garden Vege- 

 tables " published in the American Naturalist for 1887-90, to- 

 Avhich ])eriodical and to others he also conti-ibuted numerous papers of 

 kindred nature. 



Sturtevant had for many years collected from all available sources, 

 material bearing upon economic botany ; the volume before us has- 

 been prepared from a MS. bearing the title now used, from " between^ 

 forty and fifty thousand card-index notes," and from his published* 

 writings ; it reflects the greatest credit, as it has imposed a vast 

 amount of labour, upon Dr. Hedrick, to whom, indeed, the value- 

 of the book is largely due. The number of works quoted is enormous 

 and very varied ; Dr. Hedrick gives an admirable bibliography, in 

 which titles, dates, and other details are supplied with unusual ful- 

 ness : of these a certain number are themselves compilations — e. q.. 

 the Treasury of Botany^ Loudon's Encyclojycedia, and Martjn's- 

 Miller's Gardener's Dictionary — and can hardly be regarded as 

 oriyrinal authorities. 



