THE YOUNG BOTANIST 361 
ch. 
On the larger question of the Origin of Species, Professor 
Warming speaks far more cautiously than do some who cannot 
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us: “This has recently been assailed on many sides, 
not find so many supporters as it did when first promulgated by 
with their new surroundings. 
The introduction of such inherent directive force is obviously 
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tion,’ which might, we think, better be termed “ adaptability.” 
JoHN GERARD. 
The Young Botanist. By W. Percrvan Wesrett, F.L.S., and 
CG. S. Cooper, F.R.H.S. With 8 coloured and 63 black and 
white plates drawn from nature by \. ©. Newatu. 8vo, 
cloth, pp. xxxvii. 199. Price 3s. 6d. net. Methuen & Co. 
eRE is another addition to the already long list of books 
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well though extravagantly printed on good paper, nicely bound, 
and with a number of illustrations of varying merit, some good, 
some bad. So far as it goes, it is in the main accurate ; the mis- 
fortune is that it does not go further. It is in fact one of the 
is so apparent. 
The title, to begin with, is misleading—or rather wnleading ; 
no one from it could judge what the book would contain: it 
