The Nationae Series of Standard School-Books. 



NATURAL SCIENCE Continued. 



WOOD'S BOTANIES. 



from PROP. RICHARD OWEN, University of Indiana. 



I am well pleased with the evidence of philosophical method exhibited in tlu 

 general arrangement, as well as with the clearness of the explanations, the ready 

 intelligibility of the analytical tables, and the illustrative aid furnished by the 

 numerous and excellent wood-cuts. I design using the work as a text-book with 

 my next class. 



from PKIN. B. R. ANDERSON, Columbus Union ScJwol, Wisconsin. 

 I have examined several works with a view to recommending some good text- 

 book on Botany, but I lay them all aside for " Wood's Botanist and Florist." The 

 arrangement of the book is in my opinion excellent, its style fascinating and attrac- 

 tive, its treatment of the various departments of the science is thorough, and last, 

 but for from unimportant, I like the topical form of the questions to each chapter 

 It seems to embrace the entire science. In fact, I consider it a complete, attractive. 

 and exhaustive work. 



From M. A. MARSHALL, New Haven High School Conn. 



It has all the excellencies of the well-known Class-Book of Botany by the same 

 author in a smaller book. By a judicious system of condensation, the size of the 

 flora is reduced one-half, while no species are omitted, and many new ones are 

 added. The descriptions of species are very brief, yet sufficient to identify the 

 plant, and, when taken in connection with the generic description, form a complete 

 description of the plant. The book as a whole will suit the wants of classes better 

 than anything I have yet seen. The adoption of the Botanist and Florist would 

 not require the exclusion of the Class-Book of Botany, as they are so arranged that 

 both might be used by the same class. 



From PROF. G. H. PERKINS. University of Vermont and State Agricultural Cotteqe 

 I Ciin truly say that the more I examine Wood's Class-Book, the better pleased I 

 am with it. In its illustrations, especially of particulars not easily observed by the 

 student, and the clearness and compactness of its statements, as well as in the ter- 

 ritory its flora embraces, it appears to me to surpass any other work I know of. 

 The whole science, so far as it can be taught in a college course, is well presented 

 and rendered unusually easy of comprehension. The mode of analysis is excellent, 

 avoiding as it does to a great extent those microscopic characters which puzzle the 

 beginner, and using those that are obvious as far as possible. I regard the work as 

 a most admirable one, and shall adopt it as a text-book another year. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Pendleton's Scientific Agriculture, 



A text book for colleges and schools ; treats of the following topics : Anatomy 

 and Physiology of Plants: Agricultural Meteorology; Soils as related to Physics; 

 Chemistry of the Atmosphere ; of Plants ; of Soils ; Fertilizers and Natural Ma- 

 nures; Animal Nutrition, etc. By E. M. PENDLETON, M. D., Prof, of Agriculture in 

 the University of Georgia. 



From President A. D. WHITE, Cornell University. 



Dear Sir: I have examined your " Text-book of Agricultural Science," and it 

 seems to me excellent in view of the purpose it is intended to serve. Many of your 

 chapters interested me especially, and all parts of the vyork seem to combine scien- 

 tific instruction with practical information in proportions dictated by sound com- 

 mon sense. 



From President ROBINSON, of Brown University. 



It is scientific in method as well as in matter, comprehensive in plan, natural and 

 logical in order, compact and lucid in its statements, and must be useful both as a 

 text-Look in Agricultural colleges, and as a hand-book for intelligent planters and 

 farmers. 



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