492 -  Seientifie Intelligence. 
the love of nature and curiosity about language. Plant-names 
are often of the highest antiquity and more or less common to 
the whole stream of related nations. Cou we penetrate to the 
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valuable information about. the first openings of the human mind 
towards Nature; and the merest dream of such a discovery in- 
vests with a str. range charm the words that aie tell, if we could 
gaol so much of the forgotten infancy of the human race. 
is a good word for the amiable science, considered educa- 
inalty. “Historically almost the first of sciences, Botany is 
naturally and eductionally [educationally ?] first in order to the 
enquiring mind. Its objects are near our homes, awakening to 
our minds, and inviting to our touch. Botany is adapted to be 
the universal preparatory science, the science to infuse the scien- 
tific sense.’ 
While giving a series of examples of the changing meanings of 
a certain reine of words, the author goes singularly astray in a 
single instance: e. g. “In England farmer means an occupier, in 
America it =e a hired labourer. 0, indeed: it means a cul- 
tivator of the land who is not : a laborer: he is eile: 
the owner of bis, farm in fee simp . Ge 
11. Familien Podostemacem, Pstudier af Dr. Eve. Waviewe 
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. anatomical, and oa ee This mashes family of 
ing the North temperate zone. Havin ng been well supplied by 
Mr. Canby with a stock of plants in spirit, in all stages of growth, 
Warming has taken this species for particular study, and his 
anatomical and morphological investigation of its organs of vege- 
tation is here presented. The body of the article is in the Danish 
language. But an abstract and also the full explanation of the 
lates are in French. The whole fills 34 quarto pages and is 
pain by six plates, crowded with figures, drawn and litho- 
by the author himself. Three of ~ six plates and 
of the fourth are devoted to our Podostem 
2. Recherches sur la physiologie et la morphologi des forments 
alooliques WA Min Cur. Hansen,— aper 
tracted fro e pro ~~ of the physiological isboratory of 
Carlsberg, Covecbagen for 1881, treats of ‘pocminngpicaitt apicu- 
latus and its occurrence in pis This ferment, according to 
and rain and passes the winter buried in the soil. In fermenta- 
tion it acts as a bottom yeast but possesses only a feeble action, 
since, while the common yeast, Sace. cerevisi@ produces six vol- 
umes of alcohol, Sace, adnedatia, produces only one. The beer 
