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and giving, as we do^ so much — free of charge to the pub- 

 lic — we have reason to believe that those amongst them 

 who are blessed with the means of giving will in their 

 turn be generous to us. 



We should not, however, put off this matter any longer 

 — the time to act is noio. 



Without such aid our work must be crippled, and some 

 of it must be stopped. 



And finally, in resigning my honourable position as 

 President of the Society, which I have held for the past 

 two years, I have to thanlc the members of the Council and 

 the Society at large for the large measure of aid which has 

 always been extended to me in my work, I know that 

 my successor will discharge the duties of the office much 

 more efficiently than I have done, and that under him the 

 Society will take a new lease of life. 



Book Notice. 



An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada, 

 AND THE British Possessions, from Newfoundland to the Parallel 

 OF the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic 

 Ocean Westward to the 102nd Meridian. — By Nathaniel Lord 

 Britton, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Botany in Columbia University, 

 and Director-in-Chief of the New York Botanical Garden, and Hon. 

 Addison Brown, President of the Torrey Botanical Club. In three 

 volumes. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. 



This is an epoch-making work in relation to the science of Botany. 

 It will greatly help to popularize the study of the flora of tlie North 

 American continent, doing for it what Bentham and Hooker's Hand- 

 book has done for the flora of Great Britain and Ireland. These vol- 

 umes are an immense boon, especially to amateur botanists. ^Vl■itten 

 descriptions, however accurate, do not convey to the mind so clear a 

 conception of what a plant is like as the figured illustrations in black 

 and white do. There is still plenty of work for the student to do after 

 he has been put on the track of the family or genus to which a specimen 

 belongs, through the help of the outlines furnished by these volumes. 

 He must study the plant in detail, in order to make sure" lliat the spe- 



