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English-speaking world has ever known a more successful teaching 

 biologist than Huxley and there are still some of us who remember 

 how he reversed the order of treatment in his Biology, after a 

 thorough trial of the evolutionary order in the first edition. . . . 

 "To me it has always seemed a wrong done to the learner to 

 give him a specially coined Greek derivative where a single 

 English word or a manageable compound will serve. Seed-plant, 

 rootstock, sac-fruit, for those who are not and are not to become 

 technical botanists, are just as good terms as spermatophyte, 

 rhizome, and ascocarp, while they are far easier to learn and 

 to remember. It is indeed a pity that we have not a host of 

 simple terms like the German Keimhlatt, Markstrahl, and so on, 

 but let us use what we have." 



Upham's Introduction to Agriculture is designed for the eighth 

 grade, but it contains much that is more simply told than in 

 many of our high school text-books. Any high school teacher 

 of botany (and zoology) will find it a very helpful addition to the 

 class library. 



A double flowering dogwood is reported in Science (June lo) 

 by F. L. Stevens and J. G. Hall. There is an "excessive develop- 

 ment of the small bracts that subtend the individual flowers of 

 the ordinary head" and a "suppression of all the individual 

 flowers except the central one which appeared entirely normal." 



In Science for August 12, Professor T. D. A. Cockerell makes 

 a plea for the better care of types — for their more careful housing 

 and for stricter rules concerning the loaning of type specimens to 

 individuals and to institutions. Professor Cockerell considers a 

 type " from its nature, in some sense the property of the scientific 

 world." 



In Buller's Research on Fungi (1909) spore ejection was proven 

 by means of a beam of light. It is stated that "ejection is inde- 

 pendent of hygroscopic conditions, takes place but slowly at 0°, 

 and is stopped by anesthetics and by lack of oxygen. It is 



