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marriage. Johann Bauhin was for some years in Lyons, and we 
learn that while there he instructed his relative in the art of com- 
pounding medicines, especially the Theriacum, a medicine of great 
repute. “The passages which are quote ek concerning Dou z show 
and of ingular modesty. His farthest voya 
to Site, bar Venice; he coasted along Greece, landed in Crete, 
and came back by Venice as he started. The date of his death is 
not known; mee Legré places it between 1571 and 1575, for he was 
still wing when Pena and Lobel brought out their Adversaria in 
1571, and in the Appendix, which was printed at Antwerp in 1575, 
he is mentioned as ‘“‘pia memorie.’’ The collections of Dourez 
to egré. As it is, the thanks of the botanic world are bad 
his due, not only for the results achieved, but also for a pattern by 
which others may profit B Dihow Jioxsow 
The Papenldy y of Plants. A Treatise upon the Metabolism and 
Sou By Dr. W. 
of Energy in Plants. Prerrer, Professor 
of fees in Leipzig University. coogi fully revised Edition. 
Translated and edited by Aurrep J. Ewart, D.Sce., Vol. II. 
Growth, Reproduction, and Midistoaneat: Royal! Sr, pp. vill, 
296, tt.31. Clarendon Press. 1903. Pric 
be gl ind nod have in their own tongue a presentation of Dr. Pfeffer’s 
facilitating pri apter i., entitled ‘ eel” suppl jes a 
neral discussion of the subject, and the limitations to its study 
under present conditions. ‘ gro sed to in- 
structure.’’ Growth is usually ascii gialie by an increase in 
counterbalanced by its increase in diameter. The growth of ji 
and more complicat ted plants and plant organs under constant ex- 
ternal conditions is discussed, and the various — of measuring 
