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ment, as organisms showing a resultant structure. It is time to 
suggest that the laboratory student should also become a student of 
nature, and that the purpose of our analysis is not fulfilled until it 
leads to synthesis. 
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from the book-maker’s point of view. When we say that the quality 
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A new hand book of systematic botany. 
thallophytes are presented in three groups, the myxomycetes sharing 
rank with alge and fungi. The classification of the fungi is by Dr. 
sehccitsnck atice BEE 
*WarMING, Dr. E. A hand book of systematic botany; translated and edited 
by M. C. Potter. 8vo. pp. 620, illustrated. New York: Macmillan & Co., 
1895. $3.75. 
