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successfully followed in this countrv by iiuuiy and excellent works 

 of the suine character. A new and revised edition of her book has 

 now made its appearance.^ Like the original, it has passed through 

 the hands of Macoun and Fletcher, for the determination of the plants 

 included; it should stimulate in many people of the present day that 

 love for plants and their Avays w^hich comes through knowing what 

 they are,, and toward which the first edition did such good service two 

 decades ago. 



W. T. 



Notes. — An interesting and appreciative sketch of de Vries, by a 

 former assistant, Henri Hus, has been separately issued from The 



A handsomely printed volume of botanical studies presented to 

 Kjellman on his 60th birthday has been distributed by the University 

 library of Upsala. 



A detailed account of the history of natural science in the Aberdeen 

 Universities has been reprinted by Professor Trail from "Aberdeen 

 University Studies." 



Semon's terminology, "equally applicable to the movements of a 

 plant or the thoughts of a man, " is used by Francis Darwin in a lecture 

 on associated stimuli, printed in The New Phytologist of November 



A lecture on "Mendelism and Microscopy" is published by Scour- 

 field in the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club of November. 



The viability of old seeds has been tested recently by Becquerel, 

 as reported in the Comptes Rendus of June 25 last, and abstracted 

 in the Gardeners Chronicle of November 24. 



A concrete presentation of the results of local ecological study of 

 the modern sort is afforded by Woodhead's Huddersfield paper occupy- 

 ing no. 261 of the Journal of the Linncan Society, Botany. 



Strasburger contributes an illustrated paper on the thickening of 



ivissenschaftliche Botou ik. 



'Traill, Mrs. C. P. Studies of Plant Lifi; in ('Hiuuhi. Toronto, Willimn 

 Briggs, 1906. 8vo. xvii + 227 pp., with 8 reproductions in natural colors 

 and 12 half-tone engravings, from drawings by Mrs. Agnes D. Chamberlin. 



