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that Prof. Eriksson’s case was not fully proven. Prof. Bertrand 
showed an admirable and extensive set of lantern-slides illustrating 
the anatomy of the leaf-stalk in fossil ferns; Dr. Lotsy also gave an 
interesting lantern lecture on the virgin woods nt Java. Some ex- 
_It is impossible to do justice or even refer to the numerous papers 
which were before the section. ey were indeed too numerous, 
the result being that very little time was allowed for discussion ; 
and sometimes—as in the case of a paper by Prof. Engler on the 
ora of the mountains of tropical Africa, ane bal relation to north 
temperate floras—there was no time for diseu 
There are, doubtless, different views as =P Ae objects of the 
British Association. Perhaps the most important end is the 
bringing pring ene from all parts of the world of workers in the 
very various branches of the science. But it would seem advisable 
to cake ‘the best use of the people whom we have got together; and 
this purpose would, we think, be best served by the selection of 
papers of general interest for reading and discussion. Or it might 
be pos sible e, as was suggested by a member, to take papers of general 
i: first, and then divide into subsections, where papers of more 
special interest should be considered, 
A. B. Renpie. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS, 
Manual “A British Botany. By the late Cuartes CarpaLe Bapineton 
Edition, enlarged from the Author’s manuscripts and 
se sourees. Edited by Henry and James Groves. Pp. lii, 
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580, 8vo. don: Gurney and Jackson. Price 9s. 
‘‘Ir was Mrs. Babington’s particular wish that the text as 
amended ey the author should not be interfered a Owing to 
ng 
his limitation, we lave been eaabte to make alverati ions in the 
1, an 
era in British qe was closed. The sorting of Tatele tie fixing 
of British plants on their appointed pegs, the perennial disregard 
or the comprehensive investigations and ‘researches of continental 
workers in systematic botany, the dogmatic eles to ae 
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