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his conclusions with reference to purely botanical or zoological 

 questions. 



The book is a very thoughtful, sincere, and scholarl}' treat- 

 ment of the entire range of evolutionary thought. 



C. Stuart Gager 



The Swiss Leatfue for the Protection of Nature * 



A delightful book has been published in England and translated 

 into French, giving descriptions and illustrations of the Alpine 

 Flora of Switzerland. The pictures include snowy peaks and 

 evergreen slopes and are in the daintiest pastel colors, tinged with 

 the blues and purples of the distant views, and in the foreground 

 beautiful with charming groups of alpine flowers, filling the 

 slopes and meadows, clinging in crevices of steep cliffs and rocks 

 and filling the spaces among the stones of the dangerous moun- 

 tain trails. Here will be found in April, the hepatica and the 

 crocus, or the primroses with the Matterhorn in the distance 

 and the gentians at the foot of the glaciers; in June the anemones 

 and spikes of purple orchids, wild geraniums and globe flowers; 

 the edelweiss and Alpine rose with marguerites, hawkweed, and 

 rampion filling the alpine meadows in July; lovely ravines, 

 fringed with evergreens, with a gorgeous carpet of rainbow 

 colors in the foreground melting off into the pale blues and 

 snowy peaks of the dim distance. 



One of the chapters is devoted to the work which has been 

 accomplished in the last twenty years by the Swiss League 

 for the Protection of Nature, of which M. Henry Correvon is the 

 president. The League has been instrumental in setting aside sev- 

 eral alpine gardens as sanctuaries for animals and plants and a 

 most interesting account may be found of its experiences with the 

 tourists on whose favor and numbers the prosperity of Switzer- 

 land so much depends. Instructions are given to the guides to 

 prevent depredations, but sometimes even they have to look the 

 otherwayand ignore the peccadilloesof rapacious tourists ("/oz^m- 



* Sur L'Alpe Fleurie, Promenades Poetiques et Philosophiques dans les Alpes 

 par G. Flemwell, adapte de L'anglais par L. Marret et L. Capitaine, Avec 63 

 illustrations dont 20 planches hors texte en couleurs. Soc. D'Edition des Sci- 

 ences Naturelles. L. Marret et Cie, Paris. May, 1914. 



