No. 428.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 671 
BOTANY. 

A University Text-Book of Botany. 
differs from the same subject as taught when many of the older 
teachers of to-day were students, more in its many-sidedness than 
in any other respect, — a result largely due to the publication and 
use of Sachs' text-book in the seventies, and of the translations, 
adaptations, and abridgments of that book that quickly followed its 
appearance. Since then numerous and in some cases excellent 
laboratory and reference books, prepared for elementary class or 
laboratory use or for students of special branches of the science, 
have been brought out, but no distinctly original comprehensive book 
of large size has appeared from an American author before this 
work by Professor Campbell. 
In his preface the author clearly states his purpose to have been 
the preparation of a reference book, and not a laboratory manual, 
presenting in as compact a form as possible an outline of the 
essentials of modern botany and drawing its illustrations as far as 
possible from American material. A large part of the figures are 
original; and while, of necessity, anything like full references to the 
enormous literature of even the last few years have been impossible, 
each subject is provided with a short bibliography, opening the way 
to other references. 
The book consists of fifteen chapters, headed: Introduction, The 
Plant Body, The Plant Cell, Classification, The Algz, Fungi, The 
Archegoniate, Pteridophyta (two chapters), Spermatophyta (three 
chapters), Physiology, Relation to Environment, and Geological and 
ographical Distribution. The treatment is interesting and direct, 
yet conservative in debatable matters, and half-tone plates scattered 
through the text, representing types of vegetation and plant societies, 
add much to the effectiveness of the ample illustration. W. T. 
The Cyclopedia of American Horticulture.? — In the summer of 
1900 the first volume of this large and comprehensive work was put 
1 Campbell, D. H. 4 visent Text-Book of Pa New York, The Mac- 
millan Company, 1902. xv + 579 pp» 15 pls., 493 
Bailey, L. H., and Miller, W. Cyclopedia of prca i —Ó Com- 
Prising suggestions for Za on of horticultural plants, descriptions of the 
species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in i United 
States and Canada, together TA geographical and eam pebes sketches. Illus- 
trated with over 2000 original engravings. In four volum New York, 
Macmillan Company, 1900-1902. $20. 
