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may be the points of agreement in the general spirit of these two 

 manuals for botanical teachers, there is in this newer effort by 

 another vigorous, independent and resourceful teacher, enough 

 of difference in the points of attack and in the development of the 

 various themes to make it a very welcome and helpful addition 

 to the working library of any one engaged in botanical instruction, 

 whether in secondary school or in college. Professor Lloyd's part 

 of the volume, which wc assume to be the part that will be of 

 especial interest to readers of Tokreva, is a philosophical essay on 

 the value and objects of botanical teaching and on the principles de- 

 termining the content of a botanical course, followed by a detailed 

 discussion of the course in botany for the high school and by 

 suggestions as to the laboratory, its equipment, and materials for 

 study and for demonstration. References to the literature of the 

 subject are numerous throughout, and a final chapter is devoted 

 to a summary of the literature most important and useful to 

 teachers and students. 



The animus of Professor Llo}'d's essays is well summed up in 

 the following passage from the prefatory note : " It is to bring 

 the student face to face with these problems [in connection with 

 the teaching of botany] and to prepare him for their intelligent 

 consideration, that this book has been written. Whether the 

 solutions offered for such problems as have been discussed merit 

 acceptance is of secondary moment, if in the use of these pages 

 the student is stimulated to stud}' carefully the subject of botany, 

 not alone from the point of view of the scientist, but also from 

 that of the educator. If the essay excites to ' self-activity, which 

 is the best effect of any book ' its chief use will be accomplished." 



The author writes as one who is fully confident of the essential 

 dignity and of the educational and economic value of botanical 

 studies and as one who would help to rescue the subject from 

 certain popular misconceptions and to place it on its proper foot- 

 ing in the public esteem. Botanical science, he says, " touches 

 upon human interests fundamentally at every point, and these 

 are of such a kind that to be ignorant of their relations to botany 

 is to be robbed of that knov.-ledge which throws light upon 

 literature, the arts and manufactures, and upon conditions under 



