DIE, BLUTENPFLANZEN. AFRIKAS SAE: 
end. That method of representing the phenomena of heredity 
and all modifications of it are based on the assumption that any 
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correspondence with fact, but this, he again avers, is c) 
coincidence and not to any elements of truth in the ratiocination 
asily than was previously supposed possible.” Man, the unit, 
the individual, can, with the aid, the co-operative participation of 
his fellows, work out his own redemption. It may 
possible for Man to improve his own race and breed, cultivating 
the desirable and eliminating the unfit. 
The reign of Law is permanent, progressive, irresistible. In 
the course of cosmic evolution; whatever makes for the good of 
ttes 
It is a privilege to have read Mr. Bateson’s work, and to have 
assimilated, if even inadequately and in dosimetric instalments, the 
exposition of the principles which he so ably advocates, illustrated 
with concise tables, as well as figures and coloured plates, which 
enhance its value as a solid contribution to English Science. 
Freperic N. WILLIAMS. 
Die Bliitenpflanzen Afrikas, eine Anleitung zum bestimmen der 
er Afrikanischen Siphonogamen. on FRANZ 
THonner. Berlin: Friedliinder: 8vo, pp. xvi. 672. Price 10m. 
Tum idea at the back of this work is a good one. The author 
has set himself the task of compressing into a single volume, for 
the use no less of travellers and colonists than of tanists, 
the salient features of every genus of African plants known at the 
present time. The foundation is furnished by Engler & Prantl’s 
li i by the Genera 
Siphonogamarum of Dalle Torre and Harms. With these useful 
volumes as guides, he introduces the reader to an elaborate key 
