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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ¢ée. 
Tre account of the Potato-disease, to which we referred at 
e [ri 
healthy Leama and leaf, —and at the bottom corresponding 
es of disea eaf and tuber. At the end of the narrative 
account there ae hints for cal all of them founded on some 
—— except the last, which perhaps is too experimental in 
character. This refers to the possible good effects of administering 
sulphate of copper, ani and though it is not even recommended,—the 
passage is most ore worded, ex is in contrast with the firm 
and sure dealing with facts in the rest of the diagram. Perhaps 
its insertion may prove to be most Wiss, me we are far from saying 
it is a blemish on this example of how much knowledge should be 
which are to be sold for the modest sum of 6d. We would ven- 
ture to suggest that the Society should undertake a similar issue of 
other: Se of eae wit of corn and ergot, and other diseases of 
field er 
is the title Science or Romance? the Rey. John Gerard has 
issued a second series of essays dealing with some of the popular 
exponents of evolution. Reader s of the former volume, which 
was noticed in this Journal for 1890, will be glad to have the 
oa which, though dealing with different phases of the subject, 
teresting and attractive in style. It is published at 
18, West Ba Square, London, 8.E., and its price is 1s. 
ese Journal of the a os gees Society, issued June 80th, 
tains an interes “The Canker of the Larch” 
(Duayryha Wil, ie Mr. J. B. Carruthers, with illustrations 
HoRGE Kine sends us the third part of his Materials for 
Flora of the Malay Peninsula, which includes Malvaceae, Seerelane, 
and Tiliaceez. The large number of noveltics described ontinues 
to be remarkable ; in the genus Pentace, ten of the elven species 
described are new to science. 
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