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inherited, and which the English-writing botanists have ac- 

 quired, of ready and free use of Latin and latinized technical 

 words by direct transference. Botanical French, English, 

 and Italian, are contrasted with the German in this respect. 

 Noting that the German of conversation inclines to be clear 

 and sententious, while in botanical writings the words lengthen 

 more and more and the sentences become badly involved, our 

 author remarks that recently having read a couple of images of 

 Vegetable Anatomy, and feeling his brain somewhat fatigued 

 with the frequency of such words as Sclerenchymfiisergrup- 

 pen, Gefassbundentwicklung, and Entwicklungseigenthiim- 

 lichkeit, he asked himself if that was good German style. 

 He then recollected that Goethe, one of the very greatest of 

 German literary writers, was also a profound naturalist. He 

 opened his " Metamorphose der Pflanzen," read a page or so, 

 and experienced a relief which he likens to that felt by a sea- 

 tossed ocean voyager when the vessel suddenly glides into 

 a quiet harbor. 



Chapter XIX. discusses the propositions to employ letters 

 and figures, chosen arbitrarily or otherwise, to represent spe- 

 cific and generic characters, — repulsive contrivances, to which 

 our author lends no countenance. 



Chapter XX. treats questions of orthography, abbreviations 

 and signs, pagination, typography; the twenty-first chapter, 

 of titles and indexes ; both full of interesting details upon 

 which we cannot touch, although we are longing to put in 

 our oar. 



Chapter XXII. animadverts upon the tendency of certain 

 modern cryptogamists to set all botanical rules at naught. 

 The next gives advice about articles in journals, dissertations, 

 and the like ; the next treats of translations ; another, of fig- 

 ures, and has many noteworthy remarks ; chapter XXVI., of 

 auxiliary and bibliographical works ; and chapter XXVII. is 

 a chronological table of the progress of phytography, begin- 

 ning with a Chinese encyclopedia 1000 years before Christ, 

 and ending with Sachs's " Lehrbuch," 1868-1877. Botanical 

 students will find it very interesting and instructive. 



The remaining chapter begins the second part of the vol- 



