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Das Botanische Practicum. By Epvuarp Strassurcer, Professor of 
Botany in Bonn University. Hdit. 4. 8vo, pp. 1,771, tt. 280. 
Jena: Fischer. 1902. Price 20 marks. 
subject-matter and bring it as far as possible up to the level of 
present knowledge. One can understand, as he explains in his new 
preface, that the author might well shrink from so formidable an 
undertaking, considering the rapid growth of botanical literature, 
and especially of that dealing with microscopical technique, in the 
ast few years. But with the volume before him the student or 
less euphonious “ Abschnitt.”” As in the previous edition, that ot 
1897, which the present closely resembles, there are thirty-two 
sections, with the same distribution of subject-matter. e note 
material for investigation. ae at 
Types of British Plants. By ©. 8. Couman. 8yo, pp. xii, 238, with 
16 plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. London: 
Sands & Co. 1902. i 
Tus book, one of the ‘ Library for Young Naturalists ’’ series, 
is planned to fill the gap “between the more advanced manuals for 
adult readers and the one-syllable picture-books of the nursery. 
It forms a readable introduction to the study of plant life, includin 
the lower as well as the higher forms, and is much more likely than 
chapters dealing with cell-structure and function, which should 
