1876.] Recent Literature. 37 
Passing into Utah, Mr. Jackson came upon the ruins of an 
Indian village (Fig. 14) situated in the bluffs of the valley of 
the Hovenweep, of which Fig. 11, Plate II., is a ground plan; 
the area extended a hundred yards. 
In the valley of the McElmo, Utah, was found a square tower 
(Fig. 9) on the summit of an elevated rock. Fig. 10 represents 
an isolated rock in the same valley, covered with ruined houses 
and walls. A Moquis tradition states, according to Mr. Ernest 
Ingersoll, who accompanied Mr. Jackson’s party, that at this 
spot, in ages past, their ancestors made their last stand against 
the northern tribes before retreating to their present villages. 
Over New Mexico and Arizona are scattered similar ruins 
which have been described since the sixteenth century, when 
Vaca saw them occupied. The present Moquis Indians inhabit 
such structures, and it seems probable that their ancestors, an 
agricultural people, were driven up the cafions by the incursions 
of hostile tribes from the north. 
pease ater caesarean 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Sacus’s Text-Boox or Botany.!— The present translation is based 
on the third edition of Sachs’s Lehrbuch, a work which has been ex- 
traordinarily successful in Germany, a fourth edition having made its ap- 
pearance during the progress of the English translation. It has also 
been translated into French by Van Tieghem. The difficult task of ren- 
dering technical German words and phrases into clear and forcible En- 
glish has been very well performed by the translators, and it seems to us 
that they have shown good taste in making but few annotations, and 
those explanatory rather than controversial. The text and illustrations 
are excellent, quite as good as those of the German edition, which is cer- 
tainly Saying a great deal. ‘ 
The mere fact that the present translation has already been favorably 
received in England and this country shows that it supplies a want which 
the ordinary English text-books, excellent as they are in some respects, 
0 not satisfy. This want isa book which shall give something more 
than a description of the organs of flowering plants, and a detailed ac- 
fount of the orders into which they are divided. It cannot be denied that 
m this country the tendency has been to consider the chief, if not the 
only aim of botany to be the classification of phanerogams and the de- 
scription of new species. The excellent translation of Sachs will, it is to 
1 Text-Book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological. By Jutius Sacus. 
Translated and annotated by ALrrep W. Bennett and W. T. THIsSELTON DYER. 
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. London: Macmillan & Co, 1875. $12.50. 
