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The principles of agriculture.* 
Under this title Mr. Winslow seeks to set forth the elementary prin- 
ciples of chemistry, physics, geology and biology so far as they affect 
domesticated plants and animals. We have nothing to say of the parts 
of the book other than the botanical, further than this, that they seem 
to be of about the same quality. In the physical chapter, for instance, 
We notice a tranverse section of a woody stem used to illustrate the 
“porosity of matter”! The chapter on plants wholly ignores the exis- 
at the “eye”; “seeds ave supposed to contain a supply of nourishment 
sufficient to support the young plant until the ascending stem can 
= the open air”; “a shoot called the radicle extends downward”; 
the radicle is the origin of the roots of plants”; these are some sen- 
tences from the aragraphs on seeds. Mr. Winslow gravely argues 
_ The rise of the “sap” is due to “capillary attraction.” The “mate- 
— it may be in religious experience, it has been abundantly 
wonstrated that in science, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings 
Taise has no been ordained. 
M Minor Notices. 
fora of en’: HouM has prepared the “Third list of additions to tt 
cal § ashington, D. C.”, which has been published by the Biologi- 
ociety of Washington.? About 80 species and varieties have been 
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—.” I. O.— The principles of agriculture for common schools. 
2 ox PP. 152. Chicago: The American Book Co. ! 
* Sol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 1, pp. 105—132. 
