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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



^ooD's Class-Rook of Botany.— Part 1. The Elements of Botanical Science ; 

 Part 2. The Natural Orders. 



1 This Botany is designed to give the genera and species of the 

 i lants of New-England and of New-York, arranged in the orders 

 r the Natural System, as illustrated by the most distinguished 

 otanists in Europe and America, and ending with the Ferns. As 

 e author is a correct and intelligent teacher of Botany, and 

 ,iderstands the science in its present improved state, he is admi- 

 ibly fitted to adapt the work to the great object of instruction in 

 is branch of Natural Science. Such a work has long been a de- 

 i|leratum in our country. Except among a few connoiseurs in 

 j)tany, no progress has been made in the teaching in our semina- 

 rs, as all those who saw the meagre results of the artificial sys- 

 tin of Linnaeus, have felt little interest in continuing their efforts. 

 ' ue, Linneus accomplished a vast amount of good in this study ; 

 \t he adopted the artificial system only for the reason that no 

 Itter method could then be formed, and led the way, so far as 

 h knowledge enabled him, in laying the foundation of that Natu- 

 r System which has been immeasurably improved, and indeed 

 bm carried to all that degree of excellence which the advanced 

 ste of botanical knowledge admits. All this is unfolded with 

 g;at clearness and excellence in this work. The language of the 

 J'tural System, as it has been so admirably presented in Gray's 

 Ijtanical Text Book, forms the first part of this Botany ; and 

 lit natural orders, so far as illustrated in the great work of Torrey 

 al Gray, with their names, constitute the second part. The ana- 

 Heal tables, which come under the descriptions of the several 

 ers, lead on wath great ease to the genera, while the tables of 

 tl Linnean classes and orders conduct the student, by the most 

 ety steps, to the natural orders, or the genera, where the plant 



