Geology and Natural Eistory. 69 
of Le Maout and Decaisne’s Traité de Botanique, for the English 
edition edited by Dr. Hooker. 
Joun TRaHERNE MaceripcE (as the English journals at this 
moment inform us) died at Mentone, on the 24th of November, at 
his scientific investigations have mainly been prosecuted,—we 
perhaps undertaken for the sake of occupation and interest during 
the slow progress of fatal pulmonary disease. A, G. 
21. Traité de Botunique conformé a Vétat présent de la Science, 
par J. Sacus; traduit de Allemand sur la 3° édition et annote 
great editorial skill. The entire treatise has been divided into 
topical paragraphs, to each of which a telling title been given. 
In w instances, the heading embodies the substance of the 
‘erman edition occupies seven closely printed pages and has no 
division into subordinate sections, but in the translation the follow- 
8. 
Organic arrangements useful to the plant are reached by most 
Varied adaptations. Di 
Examples,—1, Vertical growth of the stem. Its utility. Differ- 
ent ways in which it is secured. By (a) Ascending stems. | (b) 
Twining stems. (c) Climbing with tendrils, different adaptations 
of tendrils. (d) Stems climbing without tendrils. ae 
- Subterranean growth, Its utility. Different ways in which it 
issemination of seeds. The methods by which it is secured. 
ere are gradual transitions in adaptations. : 
__ the editorial notes communicated by Professor Van Tieghem, 
in the departments of microscopic anatomy and morphology, are 
