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REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Trees: A Handbook of Forest Botany for the Woodlands and 
the Laboratory. By H. MarsHatt Warp, Sc.D., F.R.S., 
etc. Vol. III., ‘Flowers and Inflorescences.” Cambridge 
University Press, 1905. Price 4s. 6d. net. 
When this work was commenced, it was the intention of the 
author that it should run into six volumes, but alas! ere more 
than half the series has been completed, he has passed away. 
Professor Marshall Ward died at Torquay in August 1906, 
at the comparatively early age of 53. At the time of his death 
he occupied the chair of Botany in Cambridge University, in 
which he succeeded the late Professor Babington. He was 
one of the most distinguished of our English botanists, and he 
was exceptional among his confréres in that he devoted a 
considerable part of his time and talent to forest-botany. His 
best known works relating to forestry are Zimber and Some of its 
Diseases and The Oak. He also edited the last edition of 
Laslett’s Zimber and Timber Trees; revised and edited Dr 
Somerville’s translation of Professor Hartig’s classic Lehrbuch 
der Pflanzenkrankhetten; contributed the chapter on _ the 
botanical characters of forest trees to the second volume of 
Dr Schlich’s Manual of Forestry; and at the time of his death 
he was engaged on the work under notice. 
In this, the third, volume of the series, the author deals with 
“Flowers and Inflorescences.” ‘The plan followed is similar to 
that adopted in the preceding volumes; that is, the book is 
divided into two parts—‘“ General” and “Special.” In the 
‘*« General” part the structure of the flower and the inflorescence is 
dealt with, and the various types of the latter are discussed (a 
by no means easy subject for the novice in forest or any other 
kind of botany to grapple with), and this part of the book bears 
evidence of the same painstaking and careful work which 
