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After separation from the other organs of the flower they were 
placed in common methylated spirits for twelve hours, after the 
lapse of which time they were removed, embedded in carrot and 
cut with a sharp razor. A hole of sufficient size may, by the way, 
be easily cut out in the carrot with the barrel of an ordinary pen. 
After cutting, the sections were placed in distilled water for a few 
minutes, in order to soak out the spirit. 
From this, they were conveyed into the staining fluid prepared 
by adding five drops of Martindale’s logwood solution to one ounce 
of distilled water, and allowed to remain there for about one hour ; 
they were then removed, washed in distilled water, and placed in 
rectified spirits for two or three hours to remove the water, after 
which they were taken out and floated on the oil of cloves con- 
tained in a large watch glass. So soon as they were observed to 
sink they were removed and mounted in Canada balsam. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The following very limited list of Works is given in the hope that 
it may be found useful to Students commencing the Study of 
Botany. 
Primer of Botany. Sir Joseph Hooker. Macmillan. 
Plant Life (Handbook of Farm Series). Dr. Masters. 
Bradbury. 
Thome’s Structural Botany. Edited by Dr. Bennett. Long- 
man. 
Prantl’s Text Book of Botany. Edited by Dr. Vines. Sonnen- 
schein. 
Henfrey’s Elementary Botany. Edited by Dr. Masters. Van 
Voorst. 
Vegetable World. Figuier. Cassell. 
Text Book of Botany. Sachs. Clarendon Press. 
British wild Flowers, considered in relation to Insects. 
Lubbock. Macmillan. 
The Fertilisation of Flowers. Miiller. Macmillan. 
The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable 
Kingdom. Darwin. Murray.—Coles’ Studies. 
AY LANCASHIRE, “NALURALISE IN NEW 
SOUTH WALES, 
BOUT twelve months ago we recorded the departure from 
Ashton-under-Lyne of Mr. Thomas Whitelegge, one of the 
hardworking group of artisan naturalists of whom Lancashire is 
justly proud. A letter recently received from him by friends here 
