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The Bonn textbook? 
For nearly twenty years the Bonn textbook of botany has been the most 
prominent text of college grade in the world, having enjoyed a wider circu- 
lation and having been translated into more languages than any of its com- 
petitors. The first edition appeared in 1894, STRASBURGER writing the 
morphology, Nott the physiology, ScHENCK the cryptogams, and SCHIMPER 
the phanerogams. Of the four original authors, only ScHENCK remains, but 
they had already prepared five editions together, thoroughly establishing the 
book, before ScHIMPER died, a victim of his own restless researches. His 
place was taken by KarstTEN, who has not only maintained the high standard 
of his predecessor but has improved this part of the work with each successive 
edition. Nott wrote the physiology for the first nine editions, and then died 
suddenly, in the prime of his physical and mental vigor. Jost took his place, 
and from this time physics and chemistry have been increasingly conspicuous 
in this portion of the work. 
The heaviest loss of all was sustained in the death of STRASBURGER, who 
had been the dominating personality of the book and who had prepared the 
morphology for eleven editions. In the twelfth edition, dated April 1913, 
ITTING, who succeeded STRASBURGER at Bonn, has written the morphology. 
There is considerable change in arrangement, some change in subject-matter, 
and some change in wording, even when there has been no change in ideas. 
An admiring pupil and personal friend of the master-botanist of his time must 
be excused if he fails to find an improvement in this section of the book. 
SCHENCK, the only survivor of the founders, has been throughout a reliable, 
consistent writer, steadily improving his contribution and refusing to be 
swayed by temporary flurries in his subject. 
The excellent illustrations have always been a feature of Bonn texts. 
Some new figures have been added, and for the first time all figures have been 
credited to their respective authors.—CHARLES J. CHAMBERLAIN. 
Goebel’s Organography 
A second edition of this work? is appearing and the first volume is already 
before us. The revision has been thorough, some features of the first edition 

Firtrnc, H., Scuencx, H., Jost, L., und Karsten, G., Lehrbuch der Botanik 
fiir Hochschulen. 12th ed. 8vo. pp. viii+620. figs. 782. Jena: Gustav rece: 1913. 
?GorBeL, Kart, Organographie der Pflanzen. Erster Tiel, Allgemeine oom 
nage 8vo. pp. x+513. figs. 513. Jena: Gustav Fischer. 1913- M 16; boun 
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