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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
New Text Books. 
Text-book of Botany. By Drs. Straspsurcer, Scuencx, Now, and 
rR. Second English edition, revised with the fifth 
German edition, by W. H. Lane, M.B., D.Sc. Large 8vo, 
pp. ix, 670, figs. 686. Weight, 3 lb. 10 0z. London: Mac- 
millan & Co. 19038. 18s. net. 
A Class-book of Botany. G. P. Mupge and Arraur J. Masten, 
8vo, pp. xvi, 512, tt. 228. London: Arnold. 1908. Price 7s. 6d. 
WE welcome a new English edition of Prof. Strasburger’s 
excellent text-book. Notices of the original English edition and 
of the various German editions having appeared from time to time 
in this Journal, and the book being so well known among teachers 
translation of 1898 contained 632 pages and 594 figures. The increase 
in size in the present edition is due largely to the inclusion of the 
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centrosomes in association with the nucleus is still matter for dis- 
cussion in the higher plants, but has been satisfactorily demonstrated 
in the lower cryptogams; it is shown in a figure of Fucus serratus. 
The paragraph on nuclear division has also been elaborated, and 
additional figures are given 
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In the section on physiology we note some revision and additions 
