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This love of plant life as a part of natural scenery, of trees and 

 flowers, and an eager interest in systematic botany persisted 

 and, later on, developed toward paleobotany, for Cope became 

 one of the greatest paleontologists of the world. While primari- 

 ly interested in paleozoology he was widely and exactly in- 

 formed concerning fossil plants, and utilized the evidence of 

 paleobotany in checking his comparisons and identifications of 

 geological horizons. Many allusions to wild flowers occur in his 

 delightful letters (the names often misspelled by him or the 

 editors); and especially to trees and forest growths, in them- 

 selves, and as a part of the ecological environment of living 

 animals. Some of Cope's descriptions of vegetable life and 

 growth amount to "literature". Incidentally botanists and na- 

 ture lovers generally will be interested in the education, ex- 

 plorations, discoveries, achievements, and interpretations, of 

 one of America's leading field, systematic, and philosophical 

 biologists. One who lived much on the plains and prairie deserts, 

 in the mountains, in swamps, or the tropical Mexican jungles. 

 He was an original evolutionary thinker, and a keen observer 

 and reporter of plant life as he found it. Incidentally, the re- 

 viewer recalls Cope most characteristically with a floral bouton- 

 niere in his coat lapel. Professor Osborn has given us a de- 

 lightful and dependable biography of this great master. 



William Harper Davis 



The International Address Book of Botanists. 2 



This has been referred to several times in Torreya as in 

 course of preparation. The book was prepared in accordance 

 with a resolution passed by the Fifth International Botanical 

 Congress at Cambridge, England, in 1930. The work was done by 

 a committee consisting of Dr. L. Diels, Direktor, Botanischer 

 Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany, 

 Dr. E. D. Merrill, Director-in-Chief, New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, New York, and Dr. T. F. Chipp, Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, England. The short preface, which is printed in English, 

 French, and German gives the scope of the book. "The arrange- 



2 International Address Book of Botanists. Published for the Bentham 

 Trustees by Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, London. 1931. XY+605 pages. 12 s. 6d. 



