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his work would be more at home in “ § 18, Nutrition and 
_ Vitality ’’—say next to Thorey’s ‘‘ Beitrag zur Lehre vom Pflanz- 
lichen Stoffwechsel,”’ on the same page, or even more so next to 
Schmitz’s work, ‘Ueber die Higenwaerme des Pflanzen,’ on p. 78. 
ter Economic Botany follow Emblematie Works; Practical 
Botany ; Local Works, under the three sections, Directories, Geo 
graphical Distribution, Voyages; and then Local Floras, which is 
the largest, if not the most important division in the book 
in detail; thus, after looking over the Floras of Europe, 
e ass on successively to those of Great Britain, of England, 
of Middlesex, and of London; and it is the same with the other 
quarters of the globe, so far as there is material, and the material 
works in reference to them in all parts of the world from 
Gerard’s Catalogus (1596), the earliest published garden catalogue, 
to Seboth’s Alpine Plants painted from Nature, 1880 
Serial Publications occupy thirty pages, divided into two sec- 
tions, Transactions and Journals. The first of these, occupying 
ighteen 
which are not likely to cross the Atlantic. A search through the 
files of botanical periodicals alone would have yielded additions : 
as an instance of this we notice in the ‘ Bulletin’ of the Torrey 
Botanical Club (begun in 1870) notices of works omitted by Mr. 
ackson. 
«The Addenda includes the titles of such books as came to 
hand too late for incorporation in their proper places, new pub- 
lications, and a few which had been accidentally misplaced.” These 
are classified in sections corresponding in name and number with 
those of the main portion of the book, and bring the work down to 
the end of 1880. 
The Index is extensive, occupying 111 pages, and as complete. 
and accurate probably as is in the nature of indexes. ing slips 
