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only all the published but much unpublished matter bearing on the 

 subject. Besides tiie names of plants, words " immediately con- 

 nected with asfriculture, horticulture, wood, corn, etc." find a place; 

 there is an " English-Gaelic " as well as a Gaelic list. 



We could have wished that Father Hogan had not "resisted 

 the temptation " to explam the meaning of certain names and their 

 connection with Irish and Scottish folklore. As it is, however, he 

 has made a serious contribution towards the bringing together of a 

 complete collection of Gaelic names, and we doubt not that in 

 M. Holland's next part he will add it to the list of the books he has 

 cited. 



Cours de Botanique. Par Gaston Bonnier et Leclerc du Sablon. 

 Tome I., fascicule 1. 8vo, pp. 1-384, figs. 1-553. Peelman : 

 Paris, 1901. Subscription price to complete work, 20s.; each 

 fascicle separately, 4s. 9d. 



This Course of Botany, for the use of students in Universities, 

 in Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, and in Schools of Agriculture, 

 will form two volumes of about 2500 pages in all, with more than 

 3000 figures. It will appear in six fascicles, the last of which is 

 promised for 1903. 



From the table of contents issued with the first fascicle we 

 note the division of the subject-matter into twelve p-.irts — namely, 

 i. ** Generalites," a general introduction ; ii. Morphology of Angio- 

 sperms ; iii. Tiie Groups of Angiosperms ; iv. Gymnosperms ; 

 V. Vascular Cryptogams ; vi. Mu^cineae ; vii. Thallophx ta ; viii. 

 Physiology; ix. Experimental Morphology; x. Botanical Geo- 

 graphy; xi. Paleontology; xii. Variation. The authors claim to 

 have followed a new plan. The description and the anatomy of 

 plant organs are studied in a number of typical examples selected 

 from common plants. The account of plant families includes not 

 only the external characters usually described, but also their more 

 interesting anatomical peculiarities and their application to agri- 

 culture, uidustry, and medicine. A large space is given to the 

 study of plant diseases, plant geography and paleontology, and to 

 "experimental morphology" — that is to say, the influence of en- 

 vironment on the structure of plants. The authors have also made 

 the history of botanical discoveries the object of special researches, 

 the results of which are described at the end of the different parts 

 of the work, while some of the more characteristic figures from 

 these " ancient authors " are reproduced. The description of facta 

 illustrated by concrete examples takes precedence of generalizations 

 deduced therefrom ; the reader can thereby discriminate the proven 

 from the hypothetical. Finally, the three thousand odd figures 

 have all been drawn specially for the work, the majority from 

 nature. 



The present fascicle contains the first part (pp. 1-138), which 

 includes an introduction and a short account of the general struc- 

 ture of plants, and about half of the second part (pp. 139-384), 



