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to the botanist. It can be obtained from either of the publishers, 



Dr. H. H. Chase, Linden, Mich., and W. C. Walker, F. R. M. S., 



TJtica, N. Y. 



Elements op Botany, Including Organography, Vegetable Histology, 

 Vegetable Physiology and Vegetable Taxonomy, and a Glossary 

 OP Botanical Terms; Illustrated by nearly Five Hundred 

 Engravings prom Drawings by the Author. By Edson S. Bastin, 

 A. M., F. R. M. S., Professor of Botany, Materia Medica aud Microscopy 

 in the Chicago College of Pharmacy. Cloth, Octavo, 300 pages; price, 

 $2.50. Chicago: G. P. Euglehard& Company, 1887. 



Prof. Bastin's book is intended to fill an intermediate place 

 between the manuals for bej^inners and the higher hand-books of 

 botany for advanced pupils, so that " any student of fair intelligence 

 may take it up and pursue it (botany) without the aid of a teacher, 

 and obtain a good foundation knowledge of the facts and principles 

 of the science." The four departments into which the book is 

 divided are handled in a thoroughly comprehensive and scientific 

 manner, and in language as untechnical as is consistent with the 

 subject. Part II., on Vegetable Histology, is pari:icularly good, and 

 the appendix treating of the microscope, accessories, staining and 

 mounting, fluids, and micro-reagents, although not exhaustive, is 

 sufficiently explicit to enable the reader to undertake independent 

 study. The author has adopted the excellent plan of closing each 

 chapter in the first three parts with a practical exercise, so that the 

 student can work out for himself what has been taught in the pre- 

 ceding pages. 



On the whole, Professor Bastin's book is eminently satisfactory 

 — indeed, the best book on botany for high schools and colleges yet 

 published — and will be greatly appreciated by teachers in medical 

 and pharmaceutical schools, to whom we most cordially recom- 

 mend it. 



CORRESPONDENCE AND QUERIES. 



Pacific House, St. Joseph, Mo., June 18, 1887. 

 To the Editor of the Microscope. 



I have never known better prospects for a grand meeting of the 

 American Society of Microscopists than for the Pittsburg Convention 

 next Augu.st. From all points of the compass microscopists and 

 their friends say ive shall be there unless something more than or- 

 dinary prevents. The working session this year will be a grand suc- 

 cess. It is in the hands of a committee who will make it much better 

 than ever before, and no one who can possibly attend can afford to 

 be absent. E. H. G. 



