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co-ordination in Part II., we owe the appearance of Part I. As 

 regards co-ordination, nobody expects co-ordination in a dictionary. 

 As to the value of Part I. as a text-book, it is a very unequal 

 production. The portion dealing with the flower is excellent and 

 suggestive ; the chapter on forms of vegetation and distribution is 

 useful ; but the account of the morphology of the vegetative organs 

 is scrappy and uncertain, and reminds us more of lecture notes 

 than a chapter of a text-book. In the few pages devoted to botanic 

 gardens will be found an indication of the arrangement at Kew 

 and Cambridge, and what may be seen in the different houses and 

 beds. We would like to add, in view of the generally admitted 

 great dearth of young systematists, to which reference is made in 

 the Preface, that there is an institution, easy of access, and well- 

 known to London and even to some Cambridge students, which 

 still encourages the study of systematic botany. We mean the 

 Botanical Department of the British Museum, where, and where 

 alone, the student finds a complete exposition of the natural 

 orders of seed-plants, as well as a good illustrative series of the 

 cryptogams. ^ ^ ^ 



Botanical Microtechnique. By Dr. A. Zimmermann. Translated by 

 J. E. Humphrey, S.O. 12s. net. Archibald Constable & Co. 

 1896. 



The publishers advertise this book as "a new volume of 

 exceptional importance and value to students." It is not necessary 

 to discuss what special meaning the publishers may attach to the 

 word " new " ; but it must be pointed out that the book is not new 

 in any ordinary sense of the word, for this translation was published 

 in New York, by Henry Holt & Co., in 1893. The only difference 

 in the volume now before us is that the former publisher's name 

 has disappeared from the title-page, and is replaced by that of 

 A. Constable & Co. ; and the text and pagination are exactly 

 the same. 



Though a very good and useful book, it can hardly be recom- 

 mended to students. Those workers to whom it is useful would 

 either read it in the original German or would know of the 

 existence of the earlier version in English, so that the object of its 

 republication in England is not very clear. v TT R 



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Bot. CentraMatt (Nos. 5-8). — E. Kiister, ' Die anatomischen 

 Charaktere der Chrysobalaneen ' (concluded). 



* The dates assigned to the numbers are those which appear on their covers 

 or title-pages, but it must not always be inferred that this is the actual date of 

 publication. 



