PUBLISHEES' NOTICE. 



The essay on the EDUCATIONAL CLAIMS OF BOTANY, 

 which was appended to former editions of this work, is 

 withdrawn from the present edition. Believing it to be a 

 very important addition to our educational literature, and 

 that they can in no way better subserve the interests of 

 sound progressive education, the publishers have reprinted 

 the argument in a neat pamphlet for gratuitous distribu- 

 tion. The object of the essay is to trace the laws of 

 mental growth, to explain the method of education which 

 these laws require ; and to show the special adaptation 

 of Botany to carry out that method in the systematic cul- 

 tivation of the observing powers. 



The pamphlet treats of the following subjects : 



I. How the body grows. 

 II. How the mind grows. 



III. Extent of early mental growth. 



IV. Nature's educational method. 



V. Deficiency of existing school-methods. 

 VI. What is now most needed. 

 VII. Advantages offered by Botany. 

 VIII. Defects of common Botanical study. 

 IX. Aims of the present work. 



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