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that the general and useful practice of prefixing “in” to the title 
of a periodical quoted—‘ A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad.”’—is 
departed from throughout. 
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invaluable guide. 
The Human Side of Plants. By Royau Drxon. With four 
illustrations in colour and thirty-two in black and white. 
Sm. 4to, pp. xviii, 201. Price 7s. 6d. net. Grant Richards. 
“Tae Human Side of Plants is the unlocking of the doors 
which have barred us from the mysteries of the plant kingdom. 
loped all the characteristics of animals and inde c 
1ave of course long been familiar with plants that eat insects, 
defend themselves, predict the weather, tell the time, and go to 
sleep: but Mr. Dixon shows us that they “see, hear, taste, feel, 
walk, swim, run, fly, jump, skip, hop, roll, tumble, set traps and 
catch fish; play hide and seek—indeed, do all the things which 
we ourselves do! e know now that plants a even minds 
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abandoned ; but it is startling to find that the former have Eats 
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evident spiritual nature. . . 
be admitted that Mr. Dixon is well acquainted with 
It must | tted tha: 
the North American flora, from which he takes his examples, and 
