80 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
The World’s Work for September contains an illustrated account 
of the Arnold Arboretum, by Sylvester Baxter. 
A little handbook of nature-teaching based upon the general 
principles of agriculture, by Francis Watts, has been prepared at 
the wish of Commissioner Morris, of the Imperial Department of 
Agriculture for the British West Indies, and is printed by Messrs. 
Dulau & Co., of London. 
Some phases of the conflicting interests of people who are trying 
to teach city pupils about nature, and those who are trying to pre- 
serve natural objects, are well presented in an article by Mrs. Britton 
in Zorreya for August. 
A suggestive essay entitled * How shall a Young Person study 
Botany?" by Professor Beal, is reprinted from the Proceedings of 
last winter's conference of the New York State Science Teachers' 
Association. 
Another of the interesting and well illustrated memoirs on plant 
ecology that the Botanical Gazette is bringing out is by Professor 
Bray, and deals with western Texas. 
Phytogeographic nomenclature, discussed by F lahault in the July 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, was the subject of an extended 
paper by Clements at the recent Denver meetings. 
À paper on some changes effected in plants by frost is published 
by Lapeyrére in the current volume of the Buletin de la Société de 
Borda, of Dax. 
An essay on old herbaria, by Matouschek, is printed in Vol. 
XXXII of the Mittheilungen aus dem Vereine der Naturfreunde in 
Reichenberg for 1901. 
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