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of the mesophytes into forest, grass, and waste societies would serve the 
authors’ purpose fully as well. 
It may be too early as yet to predict whether the direction to future work 
in plant geography will be given by Warming or by Drude; and so whether 
we shall speak of ecology or phytogeography, of life forms or of vegetation 
forms, of plant societies or formations, is yet to be decided. Perhaps the 
solution will be by a division of labor, phytogeography including the larger 
problems of distribution and dealing with extensive formations, while ecology 
will have to do more with local and habitat relations, including anatomical 
as well as field investigation. In any event, the Phytogeography of Nebraska 
will be an indispensable work to all American students along either line. — 
HENRY C, COWLES. 
MINOR NOTICES. 
If IS A PLEASURE to record the publication of an English translation of 
the admirable Lehrbuch der Botanik> by Strasburger, Noll, Schenck and 
Schimper, of the University of Bonn. This translation has been made by 
Dr. H. C. Porter, of the University of Pennsylvania, from the second German 
edition, which was noticed in this journal in August 1896. The publication 
has been long delayed (it was announced for last March), but this delay has 
doubtless been unavoidable, and it has certainly whetted desire. The trans 
lator has succeeded better than was to be expected in preserving the flavor 
of the original and at the same time putting it into idiomatic English. He 
has avoided introducing new terms, in rendering technical German ones, by 
adhering to the usage of previous translators. There may be some question 
of the wisdom of too slavish conformity, but it is at least an error on the side 
of safety. We are pleased also to announce that the publis 
decided to issue the book in two parts, the first containing the — 
and physiology, and the second the special morphology of cryptoga™s sai 
phanerogams. When we add that the manufacture of the book eaves noth- 
ing to be desired (the imperfections of the color printing being entirely el 
portant, as the figures themselves are) there is nothing more to be sal ‘ 
n know how to g° 
GARDEN-MAKING is attractive to many more people tha aa 
at it, and garden-making would be undertaken by many mor 
had a proper mental picture of what a garden should be and 
about realizing it. The last volume of the Garden-craft series, sae 
L. H. Bailey,° endeavors first to create the proper conception and then 
how the picture can be painted in plants and soil. 
SSTRAS , NOLL, SCHENCK and SCHIMPER.— A text-book of 
lated from the German by H. C. Porter. 8vo. pp, x +632 Ags 59 
New York: The Macmillan Co. 1898. $4.50. In two volumes, each $2.50 
