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monograph is illustrated by four beautifully-executed plates, drawn from 

 authentic specimens, giving the natural size of each species described, 

 together with magnified representations of the critical minutiae. These 

 plates reflect the highest credit on the authors. The low price at which 

 the review is published will place it within the reach of all working 

 botanists, to whose attention it can be recommended with confidence. 



J. E. B. 



An Elementary Text-Book of Botany, translated from the German of 

 Dr. K. Prantl, Professor of Botany in the Royal Academy of Forestry, 

 Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. The translation revised by S. H. Vines, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., Fellow and Lecturer of Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge. With 275 woodcuts. London : W. Swan, Sonneschein, and 

 Allen. 

 This is, without question , the most valuable elementary text-book of botany 

 in our language. Its learned author wrote it to serve as an introduction 

 to the more voluminous "Lehrbuch" of Sachs, which it resembles in 

 its mode of treating the subject. It is divided into four parts, the first 

 dealing with morphology, the second with anatomy, the third with 

 physiology, and the fourth with classification. It is admirably done, and 

 leaves little to be desired, though, no doubt, a few minor inaccuracies 

 need correction, which the second edition, soon to be called for doubtless, 

 will afford an opportunity of making. The translation is so good, 

 the book reads as though it had been originally written in English. 

 The illustrations, some of which are after Sachs, are excellent. 



E.W.B. 



METEOBOLOGY OF THE MIDLANDS, 



THE WEATHER OF SEPTEMBER, 1880. 



BY W. JEROME HARRISON, F.G.S. 



The main characteristics of the weather of this month are readily 

 indicated ; the first nine or ten days were warm and fine, temperature 

 on the 4th rising to between 80° and 90° at most stations and attaining 

 the maximum for the year ; then followed ten or twelve days of heavy 

 rain, flooding some districts heavily and spoiling much corn either in the 

 field or the rick ; clearing up however about the 22nd, the weather of the 

 last week was fortunately warm and dry, though with foggy mornings 

 Severe thunderstorms occurred on the 14th and 18th. Lunar halos were 

 seen at Oxford on the 11th, and at Loughborough on the 13th and 17th. 

 The most striking feature of the weather of the month is without doubt 

 the high temperature on the 4th ; with the exception of 1868, there 

 is no similar record within the last fifty years. 



