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well known firm of Prang and Company, have certainly done their 
work well, considering the price, whaebas must increase rapidly with 
the number of stones used and the number of ¢ color-impressions 
necessary to give the right effect. Ify we sf the draughtsman 
rom his representation of Anemone nemorosa we could highly 
commend his work. If we took those of Gelsemiwm and Aquilegia 
chrysantha as the e type, we could do no such thing. But we have 
an idea that the artist, Mr. Alois Lunzer, is not to be judged by 
these, and that his capacity for improvement, already manifest, 
has a te a He has well — his set for 
fort is jo h Linneus as having “ made botany simple by 
reducing the Latin names given to each bisot to two, the generic 
and the s ecifi re 8 emignachron nism. . 20, — the 
“Some have contended that. the Seon s is used as a lever, 
which, on abe raised by an insect in search of nectar, causes 
pollen to be thrown on the insect’s back, and the pollen is thus 
Renemembrane is 80 closely fitted to the ‘levi er’ that it ees 
are t 
is eee E in “these speculations” i is not further explained. But 
this particular speculation is so out of keeping with the obvious 
facts that we are should think it not only “i aman ” but till 
now unimagined. Sprengel’s apenaietions: upen.t relations of 
insects to the violet, as reproduced by Lubbock, cnn nothing 
of this sort. ee aig ee ures eet the merit ‘of being founded on 
genuine obsery reat part c sit Sag an 
have 
ought not to bee beset aside by slot ae them pees an absurd 
and “ wholly 
Ata the § Pia Tike these must be taken as exp ressive 
of our perpen desire that a work like this, which seems likely to 
succeed, and which has our best wishes, should be as free as possi- 
