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plants, due to the irritation of fungi or bacteria, is not 
altogether new, and in some instances is quite true, as 
in the case of the swellings on the roots of leguminous 
plants, and the roots of the alder, etc.; but in these in- 
stances it is either a case of true parasitism, or of mu- 
tualism, where the plant benefits from a nutritive point 
of view. There is no clearly demonstrated case where 
vegetative reproductive bodies result from the action of 
an outside agent, fungus or otherwise. 
For Sale.—A Beck stand with three lenses, very little 
used. Price $10. Address: G.W. Wilcox, care this office. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
ANIMAL LiFE—is title of a new book by D. S. Jordan. 
An English notice calls it ‘superficial in character.” Its 
classification of animals is ‘“‘most certainly marred by 
all disregard for order and method in the arrangement | 
of the examples selected to represent each class. Ge- 
nera and species from numerous orders are jumbled hope- 
lessly together in one chaotic muddle.” We should be 
pleased to see this remarkable book and to try to find 
something to commend in it. We suppose this author is 
President of Leland Stanford University. 
THe MicRoscopy OF THE MORE COMMONLY OCCURRING 
STARCHES.—By Hugh Galt. 108 p. 22 photo micrographs. 
A comparative study of the starch grains of various 
plants is a very interesting and profitable’ one to all mi- 
croscopists, and a good working knowledge of the subject 
is absolutely indispensable to those who, in the capacity 
of analysts, etc., have occasionally to report upon various 
unknown compounds submitted to them for examination. 
There seems to be no book dealing with the starches ina 
thoroughly comprehensive way. The present book, sup- 
plemented by W. Griffiths’s little treatise published in 
1892 on “‘The Principal Starches used as Food,” for the 
