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A Manual. of Botany, Anatomical and Physiological, for the use of 
Students. By Rozert Brown, M.A., &c., Lecturer on Botany. 
Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons. 1874. (Pp. 614.) 
; e-eminent merit, and that a first-rate text-book in 
English has for some time been a want strongly and extensively felt. 
less, and present to his readers an original, harmo msl 
treatise, we all want. Another compilation, however laborious, of 
the old familiar sort, we do not. Dr. B thinks 
: their intended purpose, are scarcely suitable for publication as a 
sistained treatise, certainly not without far more care than, it must 
confessed, appears to have been bestowed on the book before us. 
i No doubt the author has done his best to include all the facts 
*e thought of importance in “ upwards of twelve hundred separate 
at bod treatises” in various languages, ‘which he claims to have 
