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vacation, unless he goes to a laboratory or provides himself with 

 expensive apparatus. The suggestions for field work in Miss 

 Andrews's book, however, are well adapted for giving an ambitious 

 student something to do outside of the laboratory and school- 

 room. 



An abridged flora of the Eastern United States, covering 368 

 pages, by another author, is bound in with some copies of this 

 new book, as with its predecessor, for the benefit of those who 

 may desire to increase their acquaintance with the vegetable 



kingdom by outdoor work. 



Roland M. Harper 



Heredity and Eugenics* 



Under this title there has appeared in book form a series of 

 popular lectures which were delivered at the University of 

 Chicago during the summer of 191 1. The table of contents 

 which is here printed gives an adequate and concise statement 

 of the scope of these lectures. 



I. Recent Developments in Heredity and Evolution: General 

 Introduction. 



H. The Physical Basis of Heredity and Evolution from the 

 Cytological Standpoint. John Merle Coulter, Professor and 

 Head of the Department of Botany, the University of Chicago. 



HI. The Method of Evolution. 



IV. Heredity and Sex. William Ernest Castle, Professor of 

 Zoology, Harvard University. 



V. Inheritance in the Higher Plants. 



VI. The Application of Biological Principles to Plant Breeding. 

 Edward Murray East, Assistant Professor of Experimental 

 Plant Morphology, Harvard University. 



VII. Recent Advances and the Present State of Knowledge 

 concerning the Modification of the Germinal Constitution of 

 Organisms by Experimental Processes. William Lawrence 

 Tower, Associate Professor of Zoology, the University of Chicago. 



VIII. The Inheritance of Physical and Mental Traits of Man 



and Their Application to Eugenics. 



* Pages i-vil + 1-315. [Illust.] The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 

 Illinois, 1912. Agents, The Baker and Taylor Company, New York. Price $2.50. 



