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BOOKS TO READ 



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NOTICES EY JOHN T. CARRINGTON. 



A Tixt Book of B laity . By Dr. E. Strasburger, 

 Dr. Fritz Noll, Dr. H. Schenck, and Dr. A. 

 F. W. Schimper. Translated by H. C. Porter, 

 Ph.D. 642 pp. royal 

 Svo. with 594 coloured 

 and plain illustrations. 

 (London and New 

 York : Macmillan and 

 Co., 1S9S.) iSs. net. 



This excellent text 

 book, so well known 

 to German students of 

 botany at the Uni- 

 versity of Bonn, where 

 its authors are mem- 

 bers of the staff of 

 Professors, has been 

 carefully translated 

 from German into 

 English by Dr. Porter. 

 Instructor of Botany 

 in the University of 

 Pennsylvania. The 

 publishers have also 

 secured the assistance, 



dng the proofs, 

 of Mr. A C. Seward, 



University Lec- 

 turer on Botany at 

 Cambridge. We have, 

 therefore, in this, one 

 of the most modern 

 and carefully pre] 



that has re- 

 cently been submitted 

 to botanists. The in- 

 troduction is in itself 

 a concise treatise on 

 the evolution of plants. 



ne to be read 



lly by all 

 would understand 

 vegetable life. It com- 

 mence* at the liegin- 



:' plant life, thus: 

 " It is customs 



>rgan- 

 ism» : great 



The Walnut [Jugtam rtgia}. 



-unch with rnal<: fa) an-! inflorescences. 



1 

 1 

 ■ 

 partly removed. ' 



animal and vegetable life, 

 can, 1. |y in the 



isms, while in ii 



limits 



n nil probability 



.:nt in 



Tlii-i 

 ■■'H de- 



velopment of form, relations of symmetry, branch 

 systems, the shoot, the root and ontogeny of 

 plants. Internal morphology deals with the cell- 

 tissues, phylogeny and ontogeny of the internal 

 structure, also structural deviations. Section 

 ii. is Physiology, including vital attributes of 

 plants, stability of the plant body, nutrition, re- 

 spiration, growth, movement and reproduction. 

 Part 2 is entitled Special Botany : Section i. 

 devoted to Cryptogams, and Section ii. to Phanero- 

 gamia. Then follow notes of Officinal and Poisonous 

 Plants, the latter with coloured drawings in the text. 

 The whole of the illustrations are carefully selected 

 and well executed. They are drawn from familiar 

 European plants, most 

 being in the British 

 flora, or cultivated 

 species well known in 

 gardens. As nearly all 

 the poisonous kinds are 

 in colours the young 

 botanist has his atten- 

 tion drawn to them 

 early ; though he must 

 not imagine those here 

 represented are all, as 

 that is not by any 

 means the case. In 

 the part of this work 

 occupied by Special 

 Botany, every class 

 and most of the fami- 

 lies are illustrated by 

 examples, and the 

 figures are excellently 

 drawn. We show the 

 walnut as an example, 

 by permission of the 

 publishers. This hand- 

 some and useful work 

 is sure to be largely in 

 demand f.>rbothlibrary 

 and scholastic pur- 

 poses. 



Memory and its Culti- 

 vation. By F. W. 

 Edridge-Green, 

 M.D., F.R.G.S. 311 

 pp. 8vo, with frontis- 

 piece. (London: Kegan 

 Paul, Trench, Triibner 

 and Co., Limited, 

 1897.) 5s. 



This is one of the 

 International Scientific 

 Series published by the 

 above firm, and though 

 only just to hand, ap 

 to have been 



in ! ■. .mi' I mi.' ,i: : . 



probably mosl ol 



our readers havi the irk, it is hardly 



necessary for us to say much about it. The 



■ 1 all n '■ ill. I'M ■ "Ii 



citing the relation of the centres "f memory 

 to the I the bi aln, The object of 



■ 1 1 iin' cultivation "i 



1 , '.vnii the view oi sa ing 1, 



I 

 bom If can tudied, many person 



on following the suggt II gain 1 h I". 



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