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THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



the species dealt with include C. alpinum, C. arcticum, C. vulgatum, 

 and G. arvense. 



_ Messrs. Longmans send us the first volume of a new (the 

 third) edition of the Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant 

 Products, by Dr. Paul Haas and Mr. T. G. Hill. A notice of the 

 first edition appeared in this Journal for 1913 (p. 314) ; the present 

 volume is similar in scope, although in some parts it has been 

 rewritten and as far as possible brought up to date. The work, 

 however, will now extend to a second volume, which will be devoted 

 to more purely physiological problems, and will include some of the 

 matter found in the first edition : to the nine sections of the earlier 

 issue a short section on Aldehydes has been added. The table of 

 contents is informing and well arranged, and there is an excellent 

 index. Incidentally, the volume shows how the price of books has 

 gone up: the first edition (1913), with 101 pages, cost 7s. Gd. net; 

 the present, with 414 pages, is priced at 16s. net ! 



The Bureau of Forestry of the Philippines continues to issue 

 valuable reports, well printed, fully illustrated, and excellently 

 produced. In No. 20 Dr. Augustus P. West, Professor of Chemistry 

 in the University of the Philippines, collaborates with Dr. William 

 H. Brown, Professor of Botany, in producing an account, extending 

 to 230 pages with 73 plates, showing not only the floral portions', 

 but also trunks of the trees producing Philippine Resins, Gums, Seed 

 Oils, and Essential Oils: special attention has been paid to the 

 local names, which are very numerous. Dr. Brown is also responsible 

 for No. 21— Wild Pood-Plants of the Philippines— produced in 

 similar style, with 81 plates. 



"Mr. Balph W. Chanev publishes as a contribution from the 

 Walker Museum a Flora of the Eagle Creek Formation of the 

 Gorge of Columbia Biver, in Oregon and Washington. A large 

 number of new species are described and figured from the author's 

 collections, made in 1916-17 ; these are now in the Walker Museum 

 of the University of Chicago, from whose press the pamphlet is issued. 

 Mrss Marjorie F. Warner, of the U.S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, is publishing in the Gardeners' Chronicle an interesting 

 series of papers on " Horticultural Libraries in the United States,'' 

 with notes on the more important of the books contained therein. 

 Botanical libraries are included; the most important of these are 

 those of the Arnold Arboretum, the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, and the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, all in 

 " Greater Boston " ; the last and that of the Lloyd Library in 

 Cincinatti are of special importance from the botanical standpoint. 

 The other two, at the New York and Missouri Botanic Gardens are, 

 on the other hand, very rich in gardening books. " The Missouri 

 Garden at St. Louis has special reason to be proud of its pre-Linnean 

 collection, comprising many herbals and early agricultural works, 

 largely acquired by Dr. Edward L. Sturtevant, who was widely 

 known for his studies on the evolution and history of cultivated 

 plants, particularly esculents." 



We have received the first parts of the two volumes of a new and 

 greatly enlarged edition of Prof. Penzig's Pfianzen-Teratologie, 



