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the books being adapted for beginners, while others will deal with 

 special topics and will be useful only to more advanced students. 

 The series will be divided into two sections, a Biological and a Physical. 

 The former will be published under the general editorship of Mr. 

 Arthur E. Shipley, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College, 

 Cambridge, it will include a manual of Invertebrate Palaeontology by 

 Mr. H. Woods, Demonstrator of Palaeobotany at Cambridge, which 

 is now ready ; a text-book on the Practical Physiology of Plants, by 

 Mr. Francis Darwin of Christ's College, and Mr. E. Hamilton Acton 

 of St. John's College, which is in the press ; works on Physical 

 Anthropology, by Professor Alexander Macalister ; on the Vertebrate 

 Skeleton, by Mr. S. H. Reynolds of Trinity College; on Fossil Plants, 

 by Mr. A. C. Seward, Lecturer in Botany in the University, and an 

 Introduction to the study of Botany by Mr. Francis Darwin, which 

 are in preparation. Other volumes will shortly be announced. 



