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Professor Stevens's book, published in Heath’s Modern Science 
Series, forms an introduction to the study of srs bare on lines 
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Oeiteatal. its method of ip arp and the line of procedure are 
for an excellent course in elementary botany. The writer insists 
the value of careful drawings, made as far as possible to scale. 
in the crude way so often ba by students, but to show the 
relative positions of the vari mbers on a horizontal singe 
and in vertical "mii, the relative lengths of style and stamen, 
a other points of interest. The student who has worked on ough 
a few typical flowers on these lines kb uld acquire not m 
Sa enowlodge of the ane niga but also the baginciings 
of a habit of accurate observ 
In Chapters i. to x. a course on the general morphology and 
abel te the Seed-plants is s outlined this is the most useful 
the rs aspect are followed by a dod account of the distri- 
bution of plants in time and a brief chapter on the principles o 
niusettidabic on. Inasecond and shorter part of the book, notes on 
the making of a herbarium and on laboratory equipment are given, 
while Part iii. comprises a glossary, with an explanation of the 
Se used terms by means of line sket aban 
Stage Botany, in the Organized Science Series, is an 
adaptation of “¥ Text-book of Botany, by the same author, to the 
requirements of the second stage examinations of the Boast of 
Education. The Teat-book is, unfortunately, too well known among 
sos . especially those who take the Saat a of the 
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same time to crush all interest in the science. The aim is not to 
Srcting scientists, but bach ara sae science. It is enough to say 
that what the older book does the ‘‘ more advanced” student, 
the present does for his junior. nk 
Flora Capensis: being a arti eos hte of the plants of the Cape 
Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal (and neighbouring territories), 
by various Botanists. Rdited by Sir Wituram T. Tutsexton- 
yer, K.C.M.G., &. Vol. iv. Sect. ii, pp. 192. Price 8s. net. 
L. Reeve & Co. 
We welcome another instalment of this valuable addition to our 
colonial floras, which, after a resting period of more than thirty 
