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given in the present work. As in an artificial system^ the author 

 has made natural arrangement subordinate to convenience ; and 

 though we are not able to see the convenience of an arrangement 

 which is new and strange to us, yet we can see the very great 

 conveniency of having the names of species followed by a few 

 words which we presume generally express the distinctive cha- 

 racter of the species. The glossary is also an improvement, even 

 although it does not "possess that fulness and detail ^^ which 

 characterize the excellent works of Henfrey, Gray, Lindley, and 

 Jussieu. The work will be useful to both classes of botanists : 

 for those who possess the elaborate and expensive works above 

 quoted, and also for that larger and less influential class of bota- 

 nical readers and students for whom no one thinks it worth his 

 while to write books. We hope the time is coming when bota- 

 nical works will be as cheap as Routledge's Railway Library, and 

 then botanists will be counted not by the score and the hundred, 

 but by thousands and myriads. 



Trogramme of a Course of Lectures on Botany now in course of 

 delivery in the Royal Circus Institution (Edinburgh) for the 

 Education of Young Ladies. By George Lawson, F.R.P.S., 

 etc. etc.. Demonstrator of Botany and Vegetable Histology to 

 the Edinburgh University, etc. 



A copy of the above Programme has been sent to the 'Phytolo- 

 gist' by one of oiir contributors, and we beg to congratulate the 

 fair eleves of the Scottish metropolis in being provided with so 

 able an expounder of one of the most interesting of the natural 

 sciences. We have laboured in a quiet way to excite some interest 

 for botany in the metropolis of the south, not with much success. 

 But the seeds have been scattered here and there : and as we 

 are commanded to "cast our bread on the waters" — the bread of 

 knowledge on the well-watered soil of the human intellect — we 

 wait in hope that it will spring up and be reproductive. It is to 

 the future teachers of the rising generation that we look for the 

 extension of natural science ; and we commend the consideration 

 of the subject to the Principals and Professors of our normal 

 schools, to the heads of those important educational establish- 

 ments in which the future educators of the million are receiving 

 their traininar. 



