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be allowed that fallacies are much more likely to be found in terato- 
logical data than in the more definite and orderly conditions met with 
in developmental investigations. Considerable light would probably 
be thrown on morphology by a careful study of the early condition of 
abnormal organs and their phases of development, 
We think Dr. Masters, however, might well have introduced some- 
what more inferential speculation than he has done; his short and scat- 
tered remarks on morphological subjects are of so much interest that 
one cannot but feel the want of more similar matter. Suggestive notes, 
however, on the nature of the so-called inferior calyx, of the placenta, 
the ovule, and some other organs, the homological nature of which is 
still an open question, will be found in the body of the work, and are 
again alluded to with other matters in the “ general conclusions ” at 
the end of the volume. 
We cannot praise the figures; absence of artistic beauty is of secon- 
dary importance, but vagueness is shown in some of them, especially 
in regard to the relative position of organs, which lessens their utility ; 
in those made from the author’s own sketches, the fault rests with the 
engraver. 
An excellent Index supplies copious references not only to subjects, 
but also to the various species mentioned. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The British Association lias not been productive botanically. e P 
dent delivered a carefully-worded anti-Darwinian address, the effect of which 
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Professor Huxley. "The anti-Darwinian papers read were as feeble as they were 
attacked by a very different class of arguments from those heard at Exeter. 
should communicate with Mr. M. C. Cooke, 2, kim Villas, Upper Hollo- 
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M. Alphonse de Candolle sends us his reply to "e various — that 
have been raised to his * Laws of Botanical Nomenclature,’ a reprin t from the 
to impose upon us the necessity of either passing over these laws in their foreign 
