THE NATIONAL SERIES OF STANDARD SCHOOL-BOOKS. 



NAT UllAL SCIENCE - Continued. 



BOTANY. 



"Wood's Object-Lessons in Botany. 

 Wood's American Botanist and Florist. 

 Wood's New Class-Book of Botany. 



The standard text- books of the United States in this department. In style they are 

 simple, popular, and lively ; in arrangement, easy and natural ; in description, graphic 

 and scientific. The Tables for Analysis are reduced to a perfect system. They include 

 the flora of the whole United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and are well adapted 

 to the regions west. 



Wood's Descriptive Botany. 



A complete flora of all plants growing east of the Mississippi River. 



Wood's Illustrated Plant Record. 



A simple form of blanks for recording observations in the field. 



Wood's Botanical Apparatus. 



A portable trunk, contain!] 

 and a copy of Wood's " Plant 



A portable trunk, containing drying press, knife, trowel, microscope, and tweezers, 

 it Record," the collector's complete outh't. 



Willis's Flora of New Jersey. 



The most useful book of reference ever published for collectors in all parts of the 

 country. It contains also a Botanical Directory, with addresses of living American 

 botanists. 



Young's Familiar Lessons in Botany. 



Combining simplicity of diction with some degree of technical and scientific knowl- 

 edge, tor intermediate classes. Specially adapted lor the Southwest. 



Wood & Steele's Botany. 



See page 33. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Pendletorfs 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 Manures ; Animal Nu- 

 trition, &c. By E. M. Pendleton, M. D., Professor 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 pur- 

 pose it is intended to serve. Many of 

 your chapters interested me especially, 

 and all parts of the work seem to combine 

 scientific instruction with practical infor- 

 mation in proportions dictated by sound 

 common 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-book in agricultural colleges, and 

 as a hand-book for intelligent planters and 

 farmers." 



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