62 Serentifie Intelligence. 
2. Fungi ; their amy and Uses; by M. C. Cooxr, M.A,, 
LLD. edited by Rev. M. J. Berk KELEY, IL A., F.L.S.—The Inter- 
national Scientific ‘Seitea Appleton & Co., "New York. 1875. 
pp. 299.—The earlier volumes of the International Series which 
tie come under our notice were so excellent, that it may not be 
we may add, is ina aa egree vaneng still. The depanatene 
which the honored name of Mr. point upon the ap 
inspired are diminished by his prefatory announcement, that, 
although he had * dike to write the book, he had been obliged, 
rae ill health and manifold engagemen nts, to turn over “the 
to Mr. Cooke; but that he had editorially read the manu- 
pear and the roofs, subjoining some notes. The volume is 
therefore centr ‘that of Dr. C ooke, although we may con- 
jecture that the chapters on the uses and notable phenomena of 
ungi is sand to the veteran English mycologist’s store of 
many technical terms are used without explanation; and some- 
times, it would seem, from imperfect apprehension of German 
“ As the work re intended for students, the author he had no 
ery in repeating what has been stated in forme r chapters 
where it has been thought to prove useful.” Our own "pide is 
that aneias are specially to be deprecated in a text-book, and 
may always be avoided by a good arrangement and methodi- 
eal treatment. The author, moreover, “has had no hesitation” in 
devoting more than half a dozen of the earliest pages of the 
volume to a discussion of such a vexed and wholly subsidiary 
qaestiod as that of the Schwendener hypothesis of the algo- o-fungal 
nature of Lichenes; and he pronounces confidently against it. 
This will hardly close the controversy, nor be of much use to the 
