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mean task, one is in doubt whether to wonder most at his capacity or his temerity. 
This work consists of an orderly account of the structure and life-history of 
selected species of various groups, which illustrate best the progression or regres- 
sion along developmental lines, so far as available literature presents it. Espe- 
cially, Lotsy endeavors to distinguish the sporophyte and gametophyte genera- 
tions, or as he calls them on the criterion of chromosomes the x and 2% genera- 
tions. Developmental features of nutrition, cytology, and reproduction are 
treated in connection with forms that suggest the topic. 
Avowedly, the work is a compilation of current literature, and it would be too 
much to expect that it contain no errors nor oversights. An inspection, with 
special reference to the work of Americans, reveals an unexpected and welcome 
completeness, so far at least as the major papers are concerned, and this is prob- 
ably equally true of the European literature. The work is indeed a thesaurus of 
information, and its treasures are made thoroughly available by a very complete 
index. There is no doubt that the hope of the author will be amply fulfilled: 
‘Should the book win new friends for taxonomy, or give young investigators a 
better insight into the live questions of classification, or even save one or another 
some labor and so give more time to new investigation, the author will be requited 
for his trouble.’””—C. R. B. 
‘ A SECOND EDITION of CAMPBELL’s University textbook of botany, “revised 
and corrected,” has appeared. There is no prefatory note to call attention to the 
revised portions of the book, and since the pagination of the two editions is iden- 
tical, it is evident that only such revision was attempted as could be made upon the 
stereotyped pages. Just.what these changes are could be discovered only by a 
laborious comparison of the two texts. The first edition, which reappears in this 
second edition, was reviewed in this journal (34:67. 1902). The call for a second 
edition indicates that there is a demand for a general textbook of botany of college 
A sEconD and much enlarged edition of KraEMER’s Textbook of botany and 
pharmacology has appeared. The book represents what is demanded of students 
of pharmacy in the way of botanical information. The three parts of the volume 
bear the titles Botany (416 pp.), Pharmacognosy (381 pp.), and Reagents (8 pp.)- 
The botanical section presents the principal groups of plants, from thallophytes 
to spermaphytes, in such an account as would be given in a short course in 
elementary morphology; the ‘outer morphology” of angiosperms; the “inner 
morphology” or histology of the higher plants, including the cell contents; @ 
classification of angiosperms yielding drugs; the cultivation of medicinal plants. 
If the general anatomical and morphological features of plants as presented in the 
text are backed up by laboratory work, the student of pharmacy will obtain a 
3 CAMPBELL, Doucras PERTETON, A University textbook of botany. Pp. xv+ 
579- New York and London: The Macmillan Company. 1907. $4.00. 
, Henry, A textbook of botany and pharmacognosy. pp. vit840- 
Philadelphia an aint Laciia’ J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907. $5.00. 
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