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The new Gray's Manual. 1 



The revised (6th) edition of the Manual has been fully noticed in 

 this journal (xv, p. 71). No one who has had any experience in book- 

 making was surprised that there should occur a considerable number 

 of errors and omissions in the first issue of this edition and some of 

 the reviews of the book would have been less absurd had their writers 

 taken some account of human fallibility. In this second issue an at- 

 tempt is made to give "all such needed emendations of every kind as 

 have come to our [the authors'] notice. Whenever it could be con- 

 veniently done these alterations have been made in the plates/' The 

 remainder are printed on four pages following p. 735 (designated 735 

 a, etc.) The corrections in the plates are numerous — over 100 of one 

 sort and another. Seventeen species appear among the "supplemen- 

 tary additions and corrections" — and two genera, Fransena and 

 Paulownia. 



The pocket edition of the Manual is a gem in its way and certainly 

 " fills a long-felt want." It weighs only 14 ounces and is about y% of 

 an inch thick— just the thing for carrying easily. It is bound in de- 

 lightfully soft flexible leather, and looks as though it would be durable. 

 We can suggest only one improvement short of India paper and silk- 

 sewing— that is, slightly rounded corners, so as not to catch on the 

 pocket. No botanist who has a copy of the library edition will ever 

 carry that with him after he has seen this. The American Book Com- 

 pany has merited our gratitude for dressing this volume so serviceably 

 and at the same time so handsomely. The very low price ($2) will 

 certainly make this as popular as it is handsome. 



Introduction to the Study of Botany. » 



He who gets an introduction to the science of botany through the 

 medium of this book will probably have little inclination to cultivate 

 the acquaintance. If this book is a fair indication, Mr. Edward Avel- 

 ing, D. Sc. (God save the mark!) has need himself to be introduced 

 to the fair science whose most difficult task he has essayed without 

 adequate knowledge. 



'Gray, Asa.— Manual of the botany of the northern United States. Sixth 

 ^ition, revised and extended westward to the 100th meridian by Sereno Wat- 

 son and John M. Coulter. 8° cloth, pp. 7G0 ( + 4). plates xxv. New York: 

 American Book Co. 1891. $1.60. 



The same, pocket edition,-^ X ?>£ inches, full leather, flexible. $ 



2 Aveling, Edward.— An introduction to the study of botany. W pp. *v. 

 »B figs. 271. London: Swan Sonnenschein Sc Co. (N. V.: Macmillati & 

 Co.), 1801. 





