WOOD'S CLASS-BOOK OF BOTANY. 
THE CLAREMONT MANUFACTURING CO. 
HAVE JUST PUBLISHED 
A Class-Book of Botany, 
DESIGNED FOR 
COLLEGES, ACADEMIES, AND OTHER SEMINARIES. 
PART 1.—The Elements of Botanical Science. 
PART II.—The Natural Orders, illustrated by a Flora of the North- 
ern United States, or of the United States north of the Capital, 
lat. 38 3-4. 
By ALPHONSO WOOD, A.M. 
The peculiarities of this new work, which adapt it to the use of schools, families, and of bota- 
nists generally at the oper day, are as follows :— 
1. It exhibits, clearly and concisely, the Science of Botany, as it is understood at the present 
time, with all those beautiful discoveries resulting from the recently adopted theory of the 
* transformation of leaves into the floral organs.’’ 
2. It contains a full Flora of a limited section of country, viz., of the United States north of the 
latitude of Washington, D. C. ; 
3. The species of Plants are described accurately and minutely, in order to their complete 
recognition. = 
4. The former drudgery of botanic analysis, necessary in every other School Botany, is’ 
wholly obviated in this work by a new system of Analytical Tables, near two hundred in num- 
ber, prepared with great labor and care, by means of which, the pupil is able to turn to the 
Rice and name of an unknown plant with about the same facility as he turns toa word in a 
ictionary. 
_ 5, The Elements of the Science and the Flora are both embraced in one volume, of a price so 
low as places it within the means of every pupil. 
The following recommendations have been received ;—viz: 
From Prof. Emmons, of Williams College. 
I am highly gratified that at last we have an excellent Class-Book of 
Botany, by Mr. Wood. We have been almost obliged to abandon the 
study of Botany in our Colleges and Academies for several years, in 
consequence of the want of a suitable work as a text-book for students. 
In this work of Mr. Wood, we have a desideratum supplied, certainly 
excellent, with an arrangement beautifully simple, and even elegant, 
and at the same time exact, so far as I have yet applied it. Though 
Mr. Wood is personally unknown to me,I shall be extremely well 
pleased to see his labors crowned with success, and his book immedi- 
ately adopted in all our institutions where Botany is taught. 
EBENEZER EMMONS, 
Prof. of Natural History in Williams College 
and in the Albany Medical College. 
From Messrs. Peck, Newman, and Wentworth, of Troy Conference Academy. 
Wood’s Botany evidently embodies more traits of excellence and 
usefulness than any one of the various elementary treatises in general 
use. In some of these, the preliminary principles of the science are 
unduly expanded ; from others, they are nearly or quiteexcluded. Mr 
Wood’s work combines a concise and lucid exposition of primary prin- 
ciples, with ample illustrations of the science, drawn from the Flora of 
our own immediate section. We have adopted it as.a text-book in 
Troy Conference Academy. 
JESSE T. PECK, Principal. 
JOHN NEWMAN, Teacher of Mathematics. 
E. WENTWORTH, Teacher of Nat. Science. 
