40 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
many readers to take up the study of mosses. Simply written, it 
treats of the classification, life-history, modes of reproduction, an 
(second) edition (London : Witherby & Co., 1908, pp. viii. and 72, 
40 figs., price 1s. 6d. net) the text has been revised and the figures 
have been redrawn and added to, 
M. Fénrx Ancan has issued, in the « Bibliothéque Scientifique 
International,” 2 French translation b . Blaringhem of De 
Vries’s Origin of Species and Varieties by Mutation, which was 
i i 1905, p. 163. Prof. d i 
butes a short preface to this edition, which, it may be noted, is 
much cheaper (12 fr., bound) than the English original (21s.). 
are misprints—e.g. “ Hibiscus rosa 
(p. 9). The six coloured plates do not adorn the bo 
