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1 have received no little information (or misinformation) from these 

 two articles, but the point I made has been ignored. 



The question in my mind resolves itself merely into this. Can a 

 man teach biology without teaching the whole of the subject? Can he 

 teach mathematics, unless he teach both arithmetic and quaternions? 

 Can he teach modern languages unless he teach the whole 961 tongues? 

 I claim that he can, and, words aside, this was the whole contention of 

 my previous letter. 



If a college or university is in position to give a well rounded bio- 

 logical education it is certainly its duty to do so, and I, as heartily as 

 any one else, can find fault for short-comings in this respect. But if 

 the institution be limited neither botanist nor zoologist should find 

 fault because the biological training has a distinct trend towards either 

 animals or plants, so long as it has a distinctly biological character, 

 and it will have such a character if it regards its materials as a part of 

 the living world. For the comfort of my critics I may add that the 

 reason why the majority of such biological chairs are filled with 

 animal biologists is because such have had on the whole the better 

 training. — * * * 



Pocket edition of Gray's Manual. 



An announcement just made by the American Book Company, 

 ubhshers of Gray's botanies, possesses unusual interest for botanists. 

 It is of a special edition of the Manual " in small and compact form 

 for satchel use." This is to be printed on thin French paper with 

 narrow margins, so as to make it small and thin. It will be bound in 

 full leather, limp, and cut flush, very much like a foreign guide book. 

 I he binding is to be on parchment strips such as are used in the best 

 hmghsh prayer books, and the book is intended to stand rough usage. 

 I o many it will be a matter of sincere congratulation, that we are 

 to have the indispensable "Manual " in field form. Its issue may be 

 looked to with interest, since it is to be sold at the moderate price of 

 two dollars.— Aug. D. Selby, Columbus, Ohio 



NOTKS AND NEWS. 



DR. C F. Mil 1.1 spauch, in Zoe (Jan.), describes two new Euphorbias 

 from Lower California. r 



THE Annals of Botany proposes hereafter to rive considerable 

 prominence to systematic botany. 



It is REPORTED that Bachvstima Canbyi is in successful cultivation 

 in the public gardens of Miinden, Germany. 



Mr. F. W. ANDERSON is drawing the 60 plates to illustrate Mrs. E- 

 G. Britton s Handbook of Mosses of N. E. America, which is in prep- 

 aration. 



Mr. H*lfSLB\ place in the Kew Herbarium, left vacant bv his 

 promotion, has been tilled by the appointment of Dr. Otto Stapf, of 

 Vienna. 



