330 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
Tree manuals 
Among the many books upon various phases of tree study two recently 
to hand seem well suited to the use for which they were intended. The firsts 
much as to the teachers and students of botany and forestry. This appeal 
is the more readily made through the numerous excellent illustrations, both 
from drawings and photographs. 
In the second manual‘ the same classes are appealed to, and in addition 
to simplicity of text and abundance of excellent illustrations, the book has 
further to recommend it, its pocket-size, which allows it to be most con- 
veniently carried into the forests themselves. The leather covered edition 
is in fact the best and most portable small tree manual that has yet appeared. 
—Geo. D. FULLER. 
MINOR NOTICES 
A sketch of Linnaeus.—Professor Epwarp LEE GREENE’ has pub- 
lished an admirable sketch of Linnaeus, which the publishers have presented 
in most attractive form. The personality of this great Swede should live be- 
yond the circle of professional taxonomists, and the simple and fine style of 
this sketch makes the booklet a most effective one for the teachers of public 
schools and for reading circles. The nine sections deal with the following 
NAEvs upon botany; LINNAEUS as a zoologist (contributed by W. H. Dat); 
LINNAEUS as an evolutionist. These sections introduce LrynaEus the man 
rather than as the father of taxonomy, and a most interesting and inspiring 
man he proves to be. We are told of his parentage and early education, of 
his struggles with adverse circumstances, and of the almost incredible 2 
industry, zeal, and resolution with which he conquered and rose to high 
tinction. No one could introduce him more oe spiibettatially, 
and in better form than Professor GREENE.—J. M. C. 
Indiana Academy of Science.—The Proceedings of the Indiana Academy 
of Science for 1911 (1912), a volume of 473 pages, contains the following botani- 
5 CLEMENTS, F. E., RosENDAHL, C. O., and Butters, F. K., Minnesota trees 
and shrubs. Report of the Botanical Suey IX. 8vo. xxi+314 (illustrated). 
Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota. 1912 
6 Cotuins, J. F., and Preston, H. W., ect key to the wild and commonly 
cultivated trees of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. vii+184. 
figs. 279. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Cloth $1.35; leather $2.50. 
7 GREENE, Epwarp LEE, Carolus Linnaeus. pp. 91. Philadelphia: Christopher 
Sower Company. 1912. 
