434 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Tt was but natural that the fellow-countrymen of the great 
Swedish naturalist should, on the bicentary celebration of his 
birth, set out anew the distinguished services to natural science 
; ; : a 
whi e owe t n biology has been built upon the 
foundations laid by Linné, but the full extent of our indebtedness 
is b imly recognized Inné’s main works, his Systema, 
long as we base our 
genera and species upon his labours. But besides these chief 
works there exist many others, which are hardly known @ 
original Swedish, but in these hurrying days few stop to read 
early and late he was immersed in his studies, recording facts 
and shaping theories to account for these facts. His unique 
in the quest w this was accomplished may be understood 
from the pages of this treatise, which, in its present form, will 
probably be more widely read than in its original dress. 
B. Daypon Jackson. 
Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen Botanik. By Warminc-JoHANNsEN. 
Translated from the fourth Danish edition, and edited by 
Dr. E. P. Murvecke. Secon Part. 8vo, pp. 481-668, 
tt. 445-610. Berlin: Borntraeger. Price 4:80 m. 
THE second part concludes this edition of the Danish text- 
book, the German form of which will probably be found more 
lopment of the embryo and the two sections dealing respectively 
with the inflorescence, flower, and pollination, and fruit, seed, and 
dissemination. These are followed by chapters on the periods in 
