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stances the advertisement of the book under a joint authorship, 

 which seems to imply a revised edition rather than a translation, is 

 hardly fair. In referring to the work as to some extent unique, we 

 do not forget Mr. Francis Darwin's invaluable little laboratory 

 guide included in the Cambridge Natural Science Manuals. We 

 should welcome a more exhaustive work on somewhat similar lines 

 from the Cambridge laboratory ; for though Dr. Detmer's book 

 gives an excellent account of the subject, the arrangement is by no 

 means best suited for laboratory work. It is in fact more of the 

 nature of a text-book. Nevertheless English teachers and students 

 will doubtless be glad to have the careful translation which Mr. 

 Moor provides for them under Messrs. Sonnenschein's auspices. 



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Lehrbiich tier Botanik fur Hochschulen. Von Drs. E. STRASBURasR, 

 F. Noll, H. Schenck, and A. F. W. Schimper. Dritte ver- 

 besserte Auflage. 8vo, pp. viii, 570, figs. 617 (part coloured). 

 Fischer, Jena. 1898. Price 7 M. 50 Pf. (paper) ; 8 M. 50 Pf . 

 (bound). 



The third edition of this extraordinarily cheap but admirable 

 text-book has appeared simultaneously with the English translation 

 of a former edition. We have already called attention to the 

 striking contrast in the prices of the book as offered to German and 

 English students respectively, and will only express another word 

 of envy for the former on behalf of the latter. The small increase 

 in size noticeable in the third edition of this Lehrbuch is due 

 mainly to the additional figures, a large proportion of which are 

 coloured, and illustrate officinal as well as poisonous plants. The 

 new coloured pictures are, on the whole, better than those of 

 previous editions, and their effect is to render highly attractive 

 Prof. Scbimper's section in the special botany of seed-plants. The 

 most important alterations occur in Prof. Strasburger's intro- 

 duction to morphology, where account is taken of recent advances, 

 or modifications of views previously held, in cytology. The section 

 on physiology wants bringing up to date; in the chemistry of 

 assimilation it is often wofully behind the times. The portion dealing 

 with the special botany of the Cryptogams is not sufficiently full, 

 the Bryophyta especially receiving but scanty treatment. 



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The Making of a Daisy; Wheat out of Lilies, ayid other studies in 

 Plant-life. A Popular Introduction to Botany. By Eleanor 

 Hughes-Gibb. 8vo, pp. 126, with 20 figs, in the text. 

 London: Griffins. 1898. Price 2s. 6d. 



Under this somewhat cumbersome title Mrs. Hughes-Gibb has 

 written for children a bright little introduction to the study of 

 flowers. To trace the succession of plant life from the tree-ferns 

 and lycopods of the carboniferous period to the daisy of our lawns 

 and meadows, in about twenty small pages of good-sized print and 



