BOTANY. 
Morphology of Gymnosperms. 
By Joun Mere Cou ter, Ph.D., Head of 
Department of Botany, The University of Chicago, 
and CHARLES JAMES CHAMBERLAIN, Instructor in 
Botany, The University of Chicago. Illustrated. 
8vo. Cloth, 188 pages. $1.75. 
The Gymnosperms, as the most primitive seed 
plants, are of special morphological importance, and 
are very inadequately presented in current general 
texts. This book brings together and organizes the 
widely scattered results of investigation. It is not 
a compilation, but a combination of published results, 
supplemented and guided by several years of original 
investigation. The authors have sought to disen- 
tangle and simplify a confused terminology which 
has heretofore obscured a very consistent mor- 
phology. The essential morphology of the great 
groups is considered in detail, the fossil forms are 
represented in the light of recent important dis- 
coveries, the comparative morphology of the group 
as a whole is discussed, and the part closes with 
chapters on phylogeny and geographic distribution. 
The illustrations are numerous and the majority of 
them are original. The book is addressed to special 
students of morphology, of the evolution of the plant 
kingdom, and of the paleobotany. 
D APPLETON AND COMPANY, 
NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. LONDON. 
