a BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
We hazard a guess that the demands of the botanical department of 
Harvard University are more responsible for these features than the judg- 
ment of the author. It seems a pity to attempt to galvanize the Lessons into 
a semblance of life again, the more because the book was not only the most 
popular and widely used, but the most useful text-book of its day; one whose 
_ admirable lucidity and directness may well be the envy of the text-book 
makers of a later generation. It earned for itself an honorable name and a 
secure place in memory, and should now be allowed to pass, albeit with 
something of the same regret and sense of loss as at the death of its loved 
and lamented author. The attempt to combine its method and the modern 
one is a mistake, as false in theory as it is likely to be futile in practice. Mr. 
Bergen recently attempted a similar feat in his Foundations of botany, offering 
_ the old in one hand and all varieties of the new in the other. Authors (perhaps — 
we should say in this case departments of botany) ought to be content to. 
adopt a method which seems to them best, maintain it consistently through 
_ the book, and offer it with the other books, written from a similar or a d 
ent standpoint, for the intelligent choice of teachers. The other course 
the commercial rather than the scientific or educational.—C. R. Ba 
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emi NOR NOTICES. 
yAS Fa WELL has published a waren of the flora ( 
ermatophytes) of Detroit, being a reprint, with additions, from 
al Report of the Commissioners of Parks wee 
red. x t contains descriptions of forty-five new species ¢ ve 
_ A section on edible fungi describes sixteen forms, three of ie 
M of the : new and edible species are illustrated as 
a a Sur ‘geskcues Burm: . 
; Roy. Sci. Danemark PP. 7388 ie é 
