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fold better xe. = a ten minute paper, is simply an outrage on a long-suffering 
section. We grant that papers are rupee an excuse for getting together ina 
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CURRENT LITERATURE. 
A a Sor the Mier of Vegetable Substances ; from the Ger- 
ot Dr. Tulice Withole ie Behrens: translated and edited by Rev. A.B. 
Hervey, A.M. assisted by Re H H. Ward, M. D., F. R. M. 8. Pp. xv, 466. 
Boston: 8. E. Cassino & Co. 1 Ny 
the two years in which Behrens’s “ ei e Pon been before the 
German-reading oe ae its merits have become so well known that there i is need 
in this notice onl me y a few words feataniling na aranetatiod which, so long 
promi ae at 
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paper ? 
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‘lish and for which the translator begs pardon in ady aon 
The work of editing has been too thorough] y done: indeed so many y ha a 
heen the interpolations gue ook that were it retranslated Dr. Behrens would 
hardly pee his ow ok. In Be instances the additions have _ 
valua ae in others they | ve been unnecess ssary, and i njudiciou us in 4 far a8 
To those not istetitar with the work, it may be said that the most valgabe a 
oer of the bok to botanists is the last three chapters, which treat ae oe 
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publishers and the high price of the boo k, it is one which every botanist e0- 
gaged } in histological wor ought to have at his hand. ae 
talogue of the Flora of Noble County, Indiana. By W. B. Van Gorder. ee 
The — ee City, Ind., 1885, 
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the Mp ea of ge Pea ot ‘the Stat soot when ise a pore jist | 
n assiduons collector, and in three years poy “ 
ne ney thirty specie 2 the list of the State, all from two or three of the norta- 
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