BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 367 
to be found. The book, which is clearly printed on good paper, 
will be a useful addition to the library of the botanical teacher and 
of the more advanced student. 2K 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
Naturat SELE Derinition.—The uggle for Existence, and 
the Survival of dig better adapted under the circumstances. 
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graphy, pen The Study of the Vital Relations of Organisms 
i sley). These — the ORIGIN OF 
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Action of the Conditions of Life, leading to Definite Paid 
whereby New Subvarieties arise without the aid of Natural Selec- 
tion’ gels 
e paper bristled with controvertible points, philosophical as 
well as biological; but, owing to its undue prolongation, many of 
those who desired to diseuss it were unable to do so. It seems to us 
that there is room for considerable improvement in the arrangement 
of the Society’s meetings. Sometimes the exhibitions practically 
occupy the whole evening; at other meetings there a 
gms 
opening meeting, after an interval of four months had elapsed since 
the members had okt. The Society was officially represented 
at the Vienna Congress, and many would have been interested in 
some account of the conclusions arrived at on questions of nomen- 
clature. So many of the Fellows live out of town that it is even, 
we punk, a “pee pie the meetings might not begin half an 
hour r: in any case it is certain that a paper which does not 
end until 9. 30 pra lis rt adequately discussed in the short time 
which remains. 
_ Tue new edition of Mr. B. D. Jackson’s Glossary of Botanic 
erms (Duckw. 
the original, and the price is not unreasonably raised 
827 in 
from 6s. to 7s. 6d. net. In the brief but cordial notice which = 
gave on its first appearance (Journ. Bot. 1900, 405) we anticipated 
