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perhaps some a lest the student rest satisfied with the sketches 
Hnsteating experiments in physiology, instead of regarding them as 
guides to their r performance, Similarly, in the first chapter, “ The 
Awakening of the Seed,’”’ a smaller number of figures of he actual 
process of germination ‘would have left more scope fo owers 
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would have been well if some indication of relative size had bee 
given. Sketches of apparatus, and stems or leaves of plants on the 
one hand; details of cell-structure, and reproductive organs of 
fungi on the other, are given without any indication of the reduc- 
tion-or magnification employed. 
are ten chapters. The first and second deal with the 
structure of the seed and its germination; the third, fourth, fifth, 
sixth, and seventh with the work of roots, leaves, stems, flowers, and 
fruits respectively. Chapter viii., ‘‘ How Plants are ‘dGhenbed by 
their Surroundings,” is cecological; chapter ix., ‘Plants which 
cause Decay, Fermentation, and Disease,” deals with bacteria and 
‘* Making New Kinds of Plants’ "ig the title of the last chapter, an 
eminently readable one, dealing with the wonderful improvements 
illustrated by Mr. Burbank’s work on plums, Shasta daisies, and 
other sebjbetas 
e have said enough a indicate the hens value of Dr. Oster 
hout’s book, which will not only be of use to the professed teacher 
and student, but also helpful to intelligent folk in general, who 
take interest in the world of plants around them mo 
RODS eS: 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
t the meeting of the Linnean Society on 15th June, the Rev. 
John  Oaasd, es J., F.L.S., exhibited a series of lantern-slides of 
Arum maculatur ,in disproof of the statements of Hermann ae 
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digested by the plant. Father Gerard’s remarks are given in extenso 
atp. 231. Sir oo ee eee TN his paper ‘‘ Remarks on 
the Longitudinal Nerves and Transverse Veins in the Leaves of 
Bam ” by a series of lantern- slides, displayiig the longitudinal 
nerves of Bamboos, with the transverse veins, the latter easily 
7 in some specie es, but in the meets only = be eheciee 
