182 REVIEWS. 
THE RECORD OF AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGY FOR 1869 will be Sores late 
in May. It will contain chapters by Messrs. Scudder 
Horn and Packard, and Baron Osten Sacken. Price, A x which does 
not cover the cost of printing. We trust lovers of entomology will evince 
their zeal for the science by promptly dandas to this useful publica- 
tion. e hope that it will meet with bet support than last year, as 
the im are n out of pocket in bmi: of the small sale of 
the work for 
THE WEEDS OF Matne.* — This cR issued from the State Print- 
g Office, consists of a few forms taken from the recent report of the 
Secretary of the Maine Board of initio: The young man whos 
appears as the author, has certainly shown a remarkable taste for 
hal study. Wholly unassisted, even by friendly advice, he co 
menced the study of botany under great disadvantages and he has nies 
ously prosecuted his herborizing during the too scanty leisure afforded by 
a Maine farm. The ART power of diagnosis, which the author 
possesses, leads us to hope that he will devote the next few years to 
rigid disciplinary study, Pad then resume botanical work for which he 
s H fi The pamphlet itself is not to be criticised 
make it the text for a few very brief remarks. It is so easy to learn the 
names of plants and associate the two together, and so very difficult to 
learn £he plant itself, that too many of our young botanical students are 
devoting praa time meia to collecting, preserving, and naming speci- 
mens. In v of the many great questions in plant- ph ares which 
week. The January p number of “Gomptes rendus,” contains a very in- 
teresting note by M. Prillieux upon the movements of chlorophyl grains 
n f st 
but it is plain, too, that the thinkers of our time are asking that the 
former kind of work shall be done and faithfully done. Our plants are 
well named, and therefore we are justified in suggesting that our young 
botanical friends devote less time to mere *' botanizing," as it is absurdly 
called, and give more time and better work to the study of the plant. 
Tux GEOLOGY or THE New Haven REGION.f — Professor Dana de- 
scribes the geology of New Haven and vicinity, with especial reference to 
the origin of its topographical features; showing by special facts, that 
the region, in the glacial era, like that of New England to the North, was 
moulded by ice, and that icebergs had no part in the matter, and the sup- 
posed iceberg sea over New England no existence. 
* By F. L. Seribner, 
tF the T ti f the C ticut Academy. 1870. 8vo, pp. 112. 
