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the wind." He discovered the flowers of the fig-, always before 

 asserted to be flowerless. The ovary he would no longer term 

 a "fruit," but denominates a "tubercle,' 1 and so a part of the 

 flower, a distinction of revolutionary import. These and other 

 momentous discoveries were the achievements of a life cut off 

 in its early prime. To what might he not have attained had it 

 been prolonged to its full term! 



Thus has our author brought us to the middle of the six- 

 teenth century. We apprehend that few are so versed in the 

 early history of our science as not to find in his interesting and 

 instructive pages something new, at least in the interpretation 

 of the past. The most will there obtain clear and definite ideas 

 of men and their works whereof their knowledge has been slight 

 and vague. He leaves us on the eve of a period of intense in- 

 terest, of brilliant developments and of master minds. He has 

 so sympathetically elucidated the remotest past that we await 

 with high anticipation his account of the Landmarks just in 

 sight. — S. B. Parish. 



