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be deceived by it. On p. 26 it is stated that ‘‘ at the present day 
some 630 acres are under the Director’s control.’’ ‘The precise 
area of the Gardens is 288 acres and 2 rods. A trivial slip occurs 
on p. 59. Sir Joseph’s funeral took place on Friday, December 15, 
1911 (not December 17). 
Practical Plant Biochemistry.*—A proof of the advance in 
scientific knowledge within recent years has been the bridging 
over of many of the artificial gaps by which the various branches 
of science have been separated one from another. Correlated 
with this are the unexpected nature and the practical and 
academical importance of the discoveries which have been made 
in the past few decades on the borderland of two- or 
subdivisions of tany can show greater advance than 
plant chemistry, either in number or importance of dis- 
coveries. For this reason, if for no other, Mrs. Onslow’s 
book ‘‘ Practical Plant Biochemistry ’’ would be welcomed. The 
work is primarily designed as a text-book for laboratory work, 
and in this respect is supplementary to ‘‘ The Chemistry of Plant 
Products ’’ by Haas and Hill. General statements and discus- 
compounds has been investigated. Thus we have carbo- 
perhane, have unduly extended both the scope and the 
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