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A Text-book of i ag By Drs. Epuarp Straspurcer, Fritz 
ott, Herrich ScHeNnck, and George Karsten. Third 
English Baltion, revised with the Pega German Edition 
BY WS es Lane, .B., D.Sc. 8vo, pp. x, 746, with 779 
Illustrations, in part coloured. London: Macmillan: 1908. 
Price 18s. 
Tue Strasburger text-book of botany, being so well-known and 
in such general use, and the various editions, German and English, 
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published in English. Ooisipaned with the first English secre 
of 1898, the book has increased considerably in size and botanical 
value. The 1898 edition contained 632 pages with 594 Thats 
tions, the 1908 edition contains 746 pages with 779 illustrations. 
The sections dealing with igi = physiology, and the special 
botany of cryptogams have been revised and slightly ee AE 
but the rind haan feature of the present edition is the 
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gams, and a table of the classes an a ae pea orders and 
families, which are now arranged according to the modifications of 
—— s system ag by Dr. Rigor’ in his Beebe A great 
any new figures have been introduced, in some cases "rep acing 
eid ones, and there is an increase in the number and an improve- 
ment in the quality of the coloured figures, which, considering the 
price of the pee are excellent. Teachers and students of botany 
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are under an obligation to Dr. ang for rendering available in 
English this ‘akin text-book in its recent and improved form. 
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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
anniversary meeting of the sci Society on May 25 
Dr. D. i ae E.R.S., was elected Presid 
Tue Cambridge University Press has itlisken a Catalogue 
of the Libary of Charles Darwin, now in the Botany School, 
Cambridge, compiled by Mr. H. W. Rutherford, of the University 
Library, to which Mr. Francis Darwin, who presented the library, 
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scribbled on eir pages, 0 written on scraps of paper and pinned 
to = last page’’; some of these notes are printed in the intro- 
duction. Darwin “hardly ever saa Py a hook bound, and the collection 
retains to a great degree its original ragged appearance. 
