828 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [Vou. XXXIV. 
of the Process of Fertilization,” by J. Loeb; and * Mammalian 
Smooth Muscle: The Cat’s Bladder,” by C. C. Stewart. 
The concluding number of Vol. XVI of the Journal of Morphology 
contains: ** The Development of the Coxal Gland, Branchial Carti- 
lages, and Genital Ducts of Limulus polyphemus," by W. Patten 
and A. P. Hazen; “The Embryology of a Termite,” by H. McE. 
Knower; “The Gastrulation of Amphioxus," by T. H. Morgan and 
A. P. Hazen; and * Photographs of the Egg of Allolobophora 
Foetida,” by K. Foot and E. C. Strobell. 
BOTANY. 
Text-Book of Botany.'— A copiously illustrated text-book of 
botany has been issued recently from the press of Baillitre & Co., 
under the editorship of Felix Alcan, the object of which appears to 
be to supply a work of reference for university students, to which 
purpose it is well adapted. The treatment of the subject is logical 
and thorough, and generally in accord with the most recently ascer- 
tained facts, although adherence to an obsolete classification detracts 
somewhat from its usefulness. Under ten separate parts, the work 
presents a comprehensive view of plant life in all its phases, and dis- 
cusses the place which plants occupy in nature. These are, respec- 
tively: (1) The Structure, Properties, and Products of the Body in 
general; (2) The Tissues; (3) The Structure of Members; (4) 
Growth of the Plant; (5) Nutrition ; (6) Plant Associations — 
Symbiosis; (7) Movement; (8) Reproduction and Development ; 
(9) Structure and Development of Cryptogamic Plants ; (10) 
Ferments. 
It is especially gratifying to find a recent work which takes a com- 
prehensive view of the entire subject, and the chapters on Ferments 
and Plant Associations will be found particularly acceptable to stu- 
dents who wish to study these subjects in their proper relations to 
the general phenomena of plant life. DES 
Notes. — An expected upheaval of generic and higher botanical 
names begins in the June number of the Allgemeine Botanische 
1 Bebzung, Er. Anatomie et Physiologie Végétales. Paris, Bailliére, 1900. 
8vo, 1303 pp., 1700 figs. 
