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Laboratory Botany. By Willard X. Clute. . Boston: Ginn & Co., 1909. 

 177 PP- 75 cents. (Appears to be a very practical guide. Part I, struc- 

 ture and Life Processes of Seed Plants; Part II, Evolution of Plant King- 

 dom illustrated chiefly by series of crytogamus; Part III, contains thirty- 

 six experiments in plant physiology.) 



Training of Farmers. By L. H. Bailey. New York: Century Co. 

 Pp. 263. (An important contribution to the problems of agricultural 

 education and country life.) 



School Garden Book. By G. M. Weed and P. Emerson. New York: 

 Scribners, 1909. Pp. 320, ill. (A series of very readable and inspiring 

 essays on gardening, followed by garden exercises for pupils.) 



Primer of Sanitation. By John W. Ritchie. Yonkers, N. Y. World 

 Book Co., 1909. 50 cents. (A pupil's book on disease germs and how to 

 fight them. For fifth or sixth grade pupils. A Primer of Hygiene for 

 Primary grades and a Human Physiology for grammar grades are, or will 

 be, published in the same series. The book in hand is full of practical 

 information, and it is a great improvement over the so-called "inter- 

 mediate Physiologies" which dealt with stomachs and livers, and other 

 things internal). 



Practical Guide to Wild Flowers and Fruits. By George L. Walton. 

 Philadelphia. Lippincott Co. 1909. Pp. 228, illustrated. (A con- 

 venient arrangement, based primarily in colors, for finding the names of 

 about 400 flowers and 100 fruits which are common.) 



Mosquito Life. By Evelyn G. Mitchell. New York: Putnams. 1907. 

 Pp. 280, illustrated. (A popular account of the habits, life-histories, 

 identification, and control of mosquitoes in the United States.) 



First Year Science. A laboratory manual for high schools. By W. S. 

 Russell and H. C. Kelly, of Springfield, (Mass.) High School. New York: 

 Holt & Co., 1909. (A collection but not an articulation of experiments, 

 some interesting and some otherwise, from the field of general science. 

 Certainly presents valuable information; but so disjointed as to demand 

 critical testing in many schools before we can be sure of its merits.) 



Advanced Physiology and Hygiene. By Herbert W. Conn and Robert A. 

 Budington. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co. Pp. 419, illustrated. 

 $1.10. This latest addition to the long list of high-school books for 

 physiology and hygiene is very similar to several of the books which have 

 appeared in recent years in that study of functions, personal and public 

 hygiene, and the point of view of general biology makes the recent books in 

 striking contrast with those of two decades ago when anatomy was the 

 most prominent part of school books called "physiologies." However, 

 this book does not neglect anatomy; but on the contrary it has a few 

 hundred technical anatomical terms which are of doubtful significance in 

 secondary education. Like many other recent books, this one begins with 

 cells and tissues, instead of with the skeleton and other larger parts; but 

 the value of his arrangement is, in the oipnion of many biologists, exceed- 

 ingly doubtful. The lessons on foods and food habits and those relating to 

 bacteria and disease will probably appeal to teachers as the most practical. 



