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a\s a member of the committee of revision of the Pharmacopoeia 

 of the United States, he certainly speaks with great authority. 

 Large sections of the book are taken up with histological studies 

 and from this standpoint, it must have a wide reading. 



The enormous amount of information in the book and a splen- 

 didly prepared index will undoubtedly make its range of useful- 

 ness very great. That it will successfully cater to quite all the 

 readers to whom it is addressed, some will doubt. 



N. T. 



Bessey's Essentials of College Botanj* 



Bessey's Essentials of Botany has been "entirely rewritten" 

 by Professor Charles E. Bessey and his son, Professor Ernst A. 

 Bessey, and now appears as Essentials of College Botany. 



The range of subject matter is a wide one. The first five 

 chapters deal mainly with histology and physiology; chapter 

 five contains an interesting list of chemical substances — their 

 formulas and something of their distribution in plants. The 

 remaining seventeen chapters deal with the main plant divisions 

 and their representatives. 



The laboratory work is arranged to allow for choice as to the 

 parts selected for use. It would seem as if the amount were not 

 too great for one year's work by college students. In some 

 cases, at least, a more critical type of work might be demanded 

 of college students (e. g., the unsealed apparatus in the CO2 

 experiment on page 102). The present reviewer does not agree 

 with the authors in preferring diagrams rather than detailed 

 drawings, photographs, etc. ; the type of labels or legends used 

 do not sufficiently compensate for the character of the illustra- 

 tions used; pages 72, 107, 230, and 256 furnish examples of illus- 

 trations that would mean little even to a college student. 



Jean Broadhurst 



Teachers College 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 January 12, 1915 

 The annual meeting of the Club was held January 12, 1915, 

 in the American Museum of Natural History at 8:15 P.M. 

 President Harper presided. Ten persons were present. 



* Holt & Co., N. Y. 1914. 



