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NATURE 



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 'i.i\- 1. \\iii hi W i(lni~-(l.i\ ; in lixc iiidir, .M(iiul.i\ ; 

 in i\M l\.' ir.tu.-, s.iiiii(l.i\ ; ;iiui in . ii^lii nuir.-. Sim- 

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Willi ilii- -.iiupl.- lit (h(> contt'iitv ur 11111,1 l.-.ivc 

 ill"' ImmiU Ii> cui I. •.1(1.!-. s,,iii.- will, nil diuilit, 1..- 

 intfi. -1.(1 in the jiidMini- <il (i((i|ihiriiicni . dihcrs in 

 111.' n-vults ..l)i;iin.-(l ; |), rh.i])-. >lill iimr.' will feel th.it 

 ihrv r,inn..t l,r inifr,>,tc(i in r\cr\ iIhiil:;. ;ind otlut' 

 pnilil.'in- .ind nihir [i('o|il.- h;i\c l;iv.ii. r ii;iinis upon 

 llK'ir .itl.tilidii. ill.' world .il l.ir^f would r<i;rri 

 l<> ^•■'- .ui\ lii.iiu'li (if knuwlcdi^f die nut cr r.-niain 

 ^t;iti(in.ir\ , .md will, in ft m--. c|iit'ncf, Iccl ^r.itiful to 

 I lie author kw ills labours. 



,1 MoynnK \PTi or dexdrobjim. 



D(Js I'lhiii:, at, u h , h'.i^iii Vti^.tahilis conspectus. 



l-:diud l.\ A. I'liii^lcr. N. y,, II,, H. jj, Orrhidacese, 



.Munandia'. I )cn(inil>iina'. I'.ir- i., t^encra n. 27^- 



-j;;. 1>\ i'r. Kr.in/lin. V]). ;Sj. (Leipzig : W. 



Kni;tlm,inn. mid. I Pricx- i.j.jd marks. 



T^iil'- pr. -.nt Vdlunic is the fort\-iiflh t.f .1 -., li. - 



-* 1)1 monographs, roniiirisini; the " Ptlanzcn- 



reich." and thi- third which dtaN with the great 



familv of ..rchid>. Of the three Later, the few 



di.mdious i.;(nei.i formed the subject of the first, the 



work of the late Prof. ICrnest Pfitzer, while the secomi 



\olume. l.e^^un by Ptit/er, and comjileted bv Dr. 



Ki.in/lin, de.dt with the sm.ill i^roup of the Toelo- 



gynina'. The bulkv ■ H<ft " by Dr. Kranzlin, which 



is the sutijeci df ihis notice, is devoted to the .threat 



genus D. ndrol.iiim and its immediate allies. It is 



evident therefc.r. that there is still very much to be 



done before we have, what has been a desidcr.itum 



since the tiiiu of l.indl.y, a complete monograph of 



this lari^e and important natural order. 



The plan of arrangement of tribes and trenera 

 adopted in the •■ PHan/enreich ■" is that w hich wa- 

 elaborated by Pfitzer in his account ^>\ the (^rchid.ic. ;e 

 in the - Pflanzenfaniilien, ■ \),-. Kt.m/lin. howcv.r, 

 takes a somewhat diHerent view of the limitations 

 of genera. He is here treating of that i^ortion of the 

 section Dendrobiin.v which is characterised bv the 

 presence in the anther> ci tour ijollinia without 

 NO. 2166, VOL. 86] 



ini;-f 

 in w!: 



in Pfll, 

 . i.aloure. 



;<»<) species), 



Kriinzlin |.d,,M-. ■ . 

 dunded on a misciMn 



H liiid- 



11;^ ("a! 



: .iHiJemeiii 



;;ot\l)ic V> 



dejicnds «in .1 



ti,.' r;M!i~i, Ml 



,;• IIU'', 



, orum. 



-u>titating 



:rn. which 



lilume. 



liulbon 



Adro- 



■ - le 



acre than 



• Pflan/en- 



>.ndrobium 



!i-tributed 



-pecies 



-. .1 I- more 



aiul I )i|ildc.iuldliiuin. and maintain- r 

 ihi/dii, Idund.d t'V Sir Jos«i ' 

 -p. I i. - ll din ( 'eylon. 



I 111' iiiiinl). r o( spi'cies adii,. 



doul.l.- ill. ' -liinal.- Lii'.' r. ti\- !*tit, ■ 



: familieii " in i.'^So. 



include- nidii- tli.iii ■ , 



;iiii.«iij; I. 11 -uli:,;.ner,i, ;iiid ti 



i cdiitained in llu- -ev<-n g.-ip < > !•.... 



th;m ~(H>. rhi> great im n .i-« in number of species 



i- an index i>i the lart^e and widespread interest which 



has I,., n i.ik.n in th.- f.imily of orchids during the 



last iw(iii\ \c.irs, .1 period whiih, by ;i strange coin- 



I ridenc. . siari- from the dan- of the abru|)t termina- 



li.m of the work of the \()imi,;<r Keichenb.ich. Dur- 



': ing the wliol.- of this peri.Kl Dr. Kr.in/lin has been 



I workiui^ rontiiiuously and steadily on the order, and 



i with the com])l.tion of liis m.inograph of one of the 



I largest g.-n. r;t, as well a- one of great interest, to 



botanists and horticulturists, h.- h.is earned a new 



debt of gratitude from workers Uith in the pure and 



applied aspects of the science. A. B. R. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



History of Authrupology. I>v Dr. .\. ('. Haddon, 

 F.R.S., with the help of A. 11. (Ju\^^\u. Pp. x + 

 15S. (London : Watts and Co., 1910.) Price 15. 

 net. 



THIS is a fascinating little voluni. 

 masterly manner with the history d! .uiinrojidiogy 

 in so far as that can be done within the compass of 

 some 150 pages. Anthropology is now so vast a sub- 

 ject that it is necessary for the individu.al student, if 

 h. wish.s ti. Incdiiir ,( specialist, to confine hi- atten- 

 tion to a comparatively small fraction of the whole, 

 and very often the specialist in one department knows 

 little or nothing of what has been done in other de- 

 partments. To such specialists this short history will 

 be of the greatest value, and the science of nnthro 

 poldgx as a whi'le will benetu b\ tlie Cdordination of 

 results obtained in ditTerent departments. 



The authors divide their subject into the two main 

 divisions of physical anthropologv and cultural an- 

 thropology, and these again are divided into chapters 

 with somewhat eclectic liil.'S, de.iling with the more 

 important and interesting sections. We have, for 

 example, chapters on the '" Pioneers uf Physical An- 

 thro|x>logy," "Anthropological Controversies," and 

 "The Infolding of the .Antiquity of .Man." under the 



