THE FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. 



From D. C. SCOVILLB, Superintendent of Schools, Bay City, Mich. 



Miss Youmans's Botany has been submitted to several of our teachers, and 

 we are a unit in the opinion that it ia the best book of the kind and degree yet 

 published. It promises to do what no other I know of can do enable teach- 

 ers in the junior and even the primary grades of our public schools to teach 

 botany in a scientific and systematic, yet simple and fascinating manner. 

 Another year you may be sure we shall call on you for a large number of these 

 books. 



From WM. L. DICKINSON, Superintendent of Public Schools, Jersey City. 



I shall recommend Miss Youmans's Botany as the best book of the present 

 age, in the science of botany, for beginners. 



From the New York Tribune. 



The strong point of Miss Youmans's book is that it combines methodical 

 object-study with the acquisition of an established branch of knowledge; and 

 we cordially recommend it to teachers as a valuable contribution to educational 

 progress in one of its most important aspects. 



From REV. S. LOCKWOOD, Ph. D., Supt. of Pub. Inst., Monmoufh Co., N. J. 



I have been anxiously looking for Miss Youmans's work with much hope, 

 but not without fear; for school-books are so often the evolvings of crotch- 

 ety egotists ; they promise so much and fulfil so little, that caution in regard 

 to promises is indispensable. But my best expectations of this little book have 

 been fairly met. An examination of it has begotten very positive convictions 

 as to its merit. I regard its method as the true initiative key to botanical 

 and zoological science. Bj' this I mean the mastery of the technical terms 

 and elementary facts on the skilful handling of which so much depends in 

 the correct determination of species. It is here that the usual teaching ia 

 loose, indistinct, and repulsive, and it is precisely here that the method of this 

 work is incisive and alive with interest. I am confident that the plan of 

 the late Prof. Henslow, here unfolded, will do the same for the observing fac- 

 ulties that mathematics accomplish for the reasoning powers. 



From V. C. DOUGL&.S, Superintendent of Schools, Oswego, N. T. 



I am very much pleased indeed with Miss Youmans's work, and beliere It 

 to be most admirably adapted to the wants of children and youth. 



From W. A. HAMMOND, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervout 

 System, Bettemte Hospital Medical College, New York. 



This is the best manual of the kind I 'have ever seen, and it is the only true 

 method of teaching botany; it should be adopted in ail branches of natural 

 history. 



