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The Uses of Plants : A ^Manual of Economic Botany. By 



G. S. Boulger, F.L.S., F.(j.S. Crown 8vo. pp. viii. — 224. (London: Roper 

 and Drowley. 1889.) Price 6s. 



The writer, who is Professor of Botany at the City of London College, 

 reviews the position of Economic Botany fifty years ago, and then gives an 

 account of the progress made in this special study during the last fifty years. 

 Part I. supplies some useful information on Foods and Food-stufifs, the separate 

 sections treating of starches, sugars, pulse, roots, etc. ; Part IL considers the 

 Materia Medica ; then follow chapters on Gums, Resins, Dyes, etc. A sys- 

 tematic, synoptical index and general index complete the volume. 



Names and Synonyms of British Plants. By Geoffrey 



Egerton-Warburton, M.A. Foolscap 8vo. jip. xxxvi. — 160. (London : 

 George Bell and Sons. 1889.) 



This handy volume contains the nomenclature of the London Catalogue, 

 English Botany, Babington's Manual, Bentham's Flora, and Hooker's Student's 

 Flora, also an Appendix, giving other names and their synonyms, with a list 

 of authorities for plant names. It is specially useful to students as a book of 

 reference. 



Marine Aquaria : Their Construction, Arrangement, and 

 Management. By Reginald A. R. Bennett, B. A. pp. 135. (London: L. 

 Upcott Gill. 1889.) 



Full information is here given as to the best animals and seaweeds to be 

 kept in a marine aquarium, also the best means of keeping the balance of 

 animal and vegetable life in it. Visitors to the seaside or residents there will 

 find much pleasure to be obtained by following up the healthy pursuit of col- 

 lecting, preserving, and examining the life of marine creatures as here advised. 



The a B C of Electricity. By William H. Meadowcroft. 

 Post 8vo, pp. 108. (London and Manchester : John Heywood. 1889.) 

 Price 2s. 



The MS. of this work was submitted to Mr. Thos. A. Edison, the well- 

 known electrician, and in his letter to the author he makes the following 

 favourable remarks: — ''The statements you have made are correct. Vour 

 treatment of the subject and arrangement of the matter have impressed me 

 favourably." This of itself is a sufficient recommendation. 



The Flora of Switzerland, for the use of Tourists and 

 Field-Botanists. By A. Gremli. Translated from the fifth edition by Leonard 

 W. Paitson. Post 8vo, pp. xxiv.— 454. (London: David Nutt. 1889.) 

 Price 7s. 6d. 



This is an English edition of an important work recognized by botanists of 

 eminence on the Continent. The book contains all the phanerogams and 

 vascular cryptogams which grow spontaneously in Switzerland, and also has 

 an appendix containing a list of the species found in adjacent countries. The 

 .many English botanists who visit Central Europe will find here a useful 

 botanical guide in their excursions. 



Characters and Episodes of the Great Rebellion, 



selected from the History and Autobiography of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 

 and edited with short notes by the \'ery Rev. G. D. Boyle, M.A., Dean to 

 Salisbury. 8vo. pp. xv. — 366. (Oxford and London : The Clarendon Press, 

 1889.) 



The student of modern history will find in these selections very much 



