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Messes. Eoutledge, who last year published Mr. H. S. 

 Thompson's volume on Alpine Plants of Europe, have been 

 encouraged by its favourable reception to undertake a companion 

 work by the same author on Sub-Alpine Plants, in which the 

 flowers of the Swiss woods and meadows will be similarly dealt 

 with. It will be illustrated by thirty-three coloured plates, from 

 drawings by Mr. George Flemmell. 



We have received an account of The Flora of Banffshire by 

 William G. Craib, M.A., reprinted from the Transactions of the 

 Banffshire Field Club, to which body it was presented on Nov. 2, 

 1911. The main part of the work is in tabular form, each species 

 being traced through the twenty-seven districts into which the 

 county has been divided. The Eoses have been named by Mr. 

 Barclay, many of the Eubi and Hieracia by Mr. Eogers and 

 Mr. Linton respectively : a localized list precedes the tables. 



Miss Ida H. Jackson's Botanical Experiments for Schools 

 should be of value to those who are trying to teach the elements 

 of botany to children. The experience of examiners is that experi- 

 ments are generally described from a book, or at best from the 

 observation of experiments carried out by the teacher. The object 

 of the author in this case is to supply the children with a book of 

 instructions for carrying out themselves, presumably under super- 

 vision, a series of simple experiments illustrating the principles of 

 plant physiology. Thirty experiments are described, the results 

 and conclusions to be drawn from them are placed, like the 

 answers to sums, separately at the end of the book. The direc- 

 tions for each experiment are accompanied by a page illustration 

 in half-tone from very clear drawings by a former pupil of Miss 

 Jackson. This useful little manual is published by Messrs. Blackie, 

 price Is. 6d. 



Under the title Plant Life, Messrs. G. Allen & Co. publish a 

 translation by Melta M. Eehling and Elizabeth M. Thomas of 

 Dr. Eugene Warming's small text-book (the translation is made 

 from the fourth edition of his Danish by Eug. Warming and C. 

 Eaunkiaer). The httle volume, which contains 244 pages, with 

 250 illustrations, is well printed and nicely produced, but seems 

 somewhat dear at 4s. 6d. The elementary facts of plant-life are 

 clearly stated, and the book may be recommended to those who 

 are seeking an introduction to the study of botany from the stand- 

 point of the plants themselves. The sixteen chapters deal with 

 the various life-processes which are studied experimentally, the 

 structure and function of the diiferent organs, with a final chapter 

 on plant-ecology, in which the principal Danish plant formations 

 are described. 



