74 The Botanical Gazette. [February, 
may discern.” Every chapter is filled with interesting matters about 
these common objects, which will be largely new to the reader, whether 
young or old. 
The author is equally familiar with the peculiarities and habits of 
flies, wasps, tuads, squirrels, flowers, germinating seeds, pine cones, € 
ploding pods, sleeping leaves, etc., and he studies them not as animals 
or plants, but as natural objects having an interesting history and cl 
rious behavior. ; 
There is a division of the work for each week inthe year, beginning 
with March. The first chapter deals with the flowers of the skunk 
cabbage, the next with the behavior of maple seeds. the next with 
Pickering’s frog, then antics of opening cones, and the ingenuity of 
squirrels. and so on for the fifty-two divisions. 
Although the author writes popularly and mainly for young people, 
he does not sacrifice accuracy, and often supplies the Latin namé 
when the common ones do not suffice for identification. Among the 
fungi only does he appear wanting in scientific information, e. 1% 
garding fairy rings and the exobasidium excrescences on Azalea. 
ively scientific service to biology. If boys and girls were trained ia 
biology and biological methods of this kind, the oft made remark 
that the botany and zoology which a pupil knows when he comes” 
college are usually hindrances to his further progress in those studies 
would no longer be true, and much of the effort of the college teacher 
in training young men and women for investigators would be 0” 
called for. - 
A text-book of botany for pharmacy students.’ 
In this new text-book we have no decided departure from previo 
ones. It is, however, a compact and well balanced presentation of the 
Einfihrung in das Studium der Pharmakognosie des Pflanzent ' “| 
0. Pp. X11. 364. figs. 338. Braunschweig: Harald Bruhn. 1892. ‘ 
