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new order of things will tell us what we have gained by calling 

 our plants by new and strange names that are not recognized by 

 the great body of students in other parts of the world. 



BOOK NEWS. 



The reviewer is indebted to C. W. Hope, Esq., for a set of 

 his reprints of the "Ferns of Northwestern India.'' which is 

 being published in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History 

 Society. Some idea of Mr. Hope's fitness for this task may be 

 gained from the fact that his first collections of Indian ferns 

 were made more than forty years ago. He has also been for- 

 tunate in securing the assistance and in viewing the collections 

 of practically all who have since collected there. Some two 

 hundred species are described, many of them new. and there are 

 a number of excellent plates illustrating them. Mr. Hope follows 

 the nomenclature of Hooker and Baker's "Synopsis Filicum.'" 

 but is rather less conservative in the treatment of species and 

 varieties, though by no means to be classed as a radical. It is to 

 be regretted that the place of publication makes it somewhat diffi- 

 cult for students to secure copies of this work, and the suggestion 

 is made by the reviewer that a cheap reprint would be de- 

 sirable. 



That a single course of botany will not answer the require- 

 ments of all classes of students is forcibly shown in the appear- 

 ance of Krsemer's "Botany and Pharmacognosy."* The author, 

 who is professor of botany and pharmacognosy in the Phila- 

 delphia College of Pharmacy, has included in the book only such 

 things as he considers it essential for the young druggist to 

 know, and as a result, even the botanical portion differs consider- 

 ably in treatment from ordinary methods. It is specially char- 

 acterized by directness of statement, the elimination of irrelevant 

 matter, and for the attention paid to the cell and cell contents. 

 This part covers the first hundred pages. Then follows a section 

 devoted to crude drugs in which are given the officinal names of 



*A Course in Botany and Pharmacognosy, by Henry Kraemer, Ph.D. 

 Philadelphia, 1903. umo. 380 pp. $3.50. 



