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The book opens with two plates, illustrating (1) gross anatomy 
and (2) minute anatomy, and the methods of recording results by 
means of the pencil or drawing-pen. This is followed by a 
chapter on instruments, reagents, section cutting, mounting, etc., 
etc,, in which the treatment is refreshingly non-technical. There 
is a suggestive absence of the usual “ microscopical” lingo, and 
a plainness of statement which cannot help pleasing every reader. 
to each plant, and in the treatment the gross anatomy is first 
, taken up, and afterwards the minute anatomy. Preceding both, 
. habitat, appearance, structure, development, etc., as will enable 
the student to find the plant and undertake its study with less 
difficulty. 
It will be observed that the work proceeds from the simple to 
the complex, and that every great branch of the vegetable king- 
Com is represented by species which may be obtained easily in 
in any part of the country. The authors have exercised unusual 
Care, as it appears to us, in this matter, and have succeeded in 
making a list of illustrative plants which even a tyro will have 
little difficulty in securing wherever he may happen to be. : 
We would direct the attention of those who are skeptical as to 
the Possibility of beginners studying the lower forms of vegeta- 
tion to the gross anatomy studies under each species. The things 
which can be seen in every one of the lower plants will astonish 
the old-fashioned teacher. Even in the two protophytes (Proto- 
dee anatomy than the former. If the student can see little in 
rotocoćcus with his unaided eyes, or with a hand-lens, it is be- 
rause there is very little to be seen. The old adage, “ ashort — 
to sea Soon Curried,” is appropriate here. One must not expect — 
ve. as much in Protococcus as in Capsella, but one must not 
_ Reglect to see the little that is to be seen. ee 
: An €xcellent pronouncing and descriptive glossary, a full ae 
index, complete the volume.—Charles E. Bessey. ; o 
