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that he should use a Text-book. Examiners i in Natural Science 
now almost universally attach great importance to dissecting — ee : 
_and microscopical work, as the best indication of ‘practical - AE . | 
acquaintance with the subject, without, however, abandon — : 
ing the additional test of requiring clear and correct answers x . 
to written questions. 
! In editing the present work, the object especially kept ae 
in view has been to make it useful to candidates preparing 
versity of London. Botany now forms a portion of nine 
- different examinations at the London University :—the Pre- _ 
Ay 
for the Science examinations conducted by the Educational 
. Department at South Kensington, or for those at the Unt - 
liminary Scientific Examination required from all medical — 
students (both the Pass examination and that for Honours) 5: “ 
Second Bachelor of Science (Pass and Honours); the 
General Examination for Women (Honours) ; the Doctor of 
Science in Vegetable Physiology ; and the Doctor of Science 
‘in Systematic Botany. In the first five of these (the Pre- — 
liminary Scientific Pass and Honours; the First Bachelor — 
‘of Science Pass and Honours; and the Second Bachelor of. 
Science Pass) it is believed the present work will be found 
a sufficient Text-book ; for the Second Bachelor of Science 
~ Honours, the Examination for Women in Honours, and the. 
- Doctor of Science in either branch, the student should con- 
sult some more advanced treatise, as the English edition of 
- Decaisne’s ‘ Traité Général’ (Longmans) for Classification. 
ea he examinations for the First and Second Bachelor of 
Science have recently undergone complete revision, the 
revised regulations coming into force for the first time during 
the First Bachelor of Science (Pass and Honours) ; the - ¥: 
Sachs’s Text-book (Clarendon Press) for Anatomy and * 
Physiology, and Dr. Hooker’s edition of Le Maout and 
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