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all the important facts about a charming study.' — Melbourne Herald, 

 ioth February 1880. 



. . . l Mr. Guilfoyle is to be congratulated on the completion of 

 the most valuable first book of botany which has come under our 

 notice.' — Castlemaine Representative, ioth February 1880. 



. . . ' It is entitled The A B C of Australian Botany, and un- 

 like many — we might say most — so-called elementary works, is really 

 what it professes to be, and is so simply written that the most unin- 

 formed upon the subject can understand it.' — Horsham Times, nth 

 June 1880. 



' In this unpretentious little work the Director of the Melbourne 

 Botanical Gardens has embodied some elementary lessons of the science 

 of botany. To those teachers who cannot find attraction in the more 

 elaborate works of Balfour, Hooker, and Baron von Mueller, the 

 book will be of service.' — Australasian Schoolmaster and Literary 

 Review, 17th March 1880. 



. . . ' The little brochure now before us is entitled The ABC 

 of Botany, and is intended as a simpler guide to the science than the 

 First Book. It is, in fact, a child's handbook, with which he — or the 

 maturer student who has neglected to make himself acquainted with 

 the fascinating mysteries of the plant world — can, without assistance, 

 learn the rudiments of botany as effectually as if Mr. Guilfoyle himself 

 was his personal instructor.' — Melbourne Advice Note, 8th June 1880. , 



. . . ' Mr. Guilfoyle, Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 

 has written not only one of the best elementary works on the subject, 

 but also one of considerable use as a work of reference.' — Sydney 

 Telegraph, 7th February 1 880. 



. . . ' As an instruction book for the school pupil, and even as a 

 manual for the maturer student, the work leaves little to be desired. 

 While following a thoroughly scientific method, the author successfully 

 disentangles intricacies, explains nomenclatures, and metamorphoses 

 the definitions of philosophers into language that may be understood 

 by the least scientific of minds. ' — S. A. Advertiser, 17th February 1880. 



' Mr. Guilfoyle is the author of a larger work — A First Book of 

 Australian Botany — to which the little book under notice may be con- 

 sidered as an introduction. The title of the book is an indication of 

 its nature and object, which is simply to enable the young student to 

 master the elements of that most interesting science — botany. . . . 

 The publication of books of this class in the colonies is a gratifying proof 

 of the existence of a demand for healthy and useful literature.' — The 

 Colonies and India, London, 21st August 1880. 



. . . ' It is a small elementary book of one hundred pages, fully 

 illustrated with drawings from Australian plants, and aptly designed as a 

 rudimentary botany, and a most excellent introduction to the First Book 

 of Australian Botany ; also a School Botany, by the same author. ' — 

 L. B. Case's Botanical Index, Indiana, U.S. America. 



