959 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Trirotium striatum L., Beps. — This plant, recorded in 
Journ. Bot,, 1889, p. 210, 3 have Tooked for in vain until this 
summer, when I found it in great profusion at Oainhoe, near 
Ampthill, in old pasture about an old sand-pit. I see no reason for 
epee? it to be an escape.—Cuartes Crovcn. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Lessons in Elementary Biology. By T. Jerrery so sae pp. xi, 
408; 89 et Lon Bon = Maas lan - Co. 10s. 6d. 
handbook.” Itm e said at once that so as the botanical 
portion is concerned (and of that only do I venture to judge) Prof. 
Parker has succeeded ly in his o have read the 
whole book with strict attention and profit to myself, as one of the 
class to whom it appeals, whose zoological (or botanical) oduscuee 
has been somewhat neglected and forgotten. Prof. Parker writes 
hand. These are all the elements needed for a good book, and 
they are employed with judgment. Perhaps the best compliment 
that can be paid its author is to confess that he demonstrates the 
reality of that elusive subject, the ere of biology. Botany we 
ow, and zoology we know of, but biology—a judicious pe 
u 
atter is far simpler of definition. The student is taught 
botany by its gaat on his peculiar plan, and zoolo sy likewise. 
e is, however, examined in elementary biology, and it is managed 
in this way, e. aE 
= toany — 200 marks, 
Zoology = 200 
— Elementary Biology — 400 sacks 
Elementary biology therefore equals what = were taught under 
the name of ‘‘simple addi tion” in our callow y uth. At school it is 
simple addition ; at the y; y bi akg . Thisisanaked 
oe soae of fact, and the ordinary student Stained ta in this way has no 
rig them, than he of why he “ was made to mourn.’ 
To cure him, and it a be some of his teachers, of this extra- 
a and —— de oe there could be no better method 
’s book. He has selected with care a 
