292 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The eye should be taught this, as wrong impressions are difficult to 

 eradicate; then to find the lady's smock and celandine intercalated 

 between Clematis and Caltha is bewildering. 



"A Glossary of Botanic Terms." By B. Daydon Jackson. Second 

 edition. 8vo. 371 pp. (Duckworth, London.) Is. 6c?. net. 



We are not surprised to see a new edition of this admirable and most 

 useful book. The first edition had 319 pages, the present one 371. It 

 has involved a very great amount of labour, and all botanists must feel 

 greatly indebted to Mr. Jackson for the great pains he has taken in 

 compiling it. 



" Scientific Lectures." By Eight Hon. Lord Avebury. Third edition. 

 8vo. 232 pp. (Macmillan, London.) 6s. net. 



The first edition was published in 1879, and is now so well known 

 that it will be needless to say more than, as young scientists keep 

 rising up, that they should all study these admirable addresses. They 

 deal with flowers and insects, plants and insects, habits of ants, pre- 

 historic archaeology, and an inaugural address to the Institute of Bankers. 



"A Historical Geography of the British Colonies." Vol. II.: The 

 West Indies. By C. P. Lucas, C.B. 8vo. 348 pp. (Clarendon Press, 

 Oxford.) 7s. Gd. 



Section 1. deals with the Bermudas, and gives a concise history from 

 its discovery to the present day ; the structure of the islands, scenery, 

 details of population, trade, &c. 



Section 11. contains nine chapters, and treats of the West Indian 

 dependencies of Great Britain. Each island or group is discussed as 

 above with the Bermudas. 



Section III. is devoted, in a similar manner, to the Falkland Islands 

 and S. Georgia. 



Altogether the information should prove most useful to anyone in 

 any way interested in these outlying dependencies of Great Britain. 



" The Romance of Plant Life : Interesting Descriptions of the Strange 

 and Curious in the Plant World." By G. F. Scott-Elliot. 8vo. 380 pp. 

 (Seeley, London.) 5s. 



This is an extremely interesting volume, consisting of twenty-nine 

 chapters, each on a different subject : such as " The Activity of Vege- 

 tables " ; on Savages, Doctors, and Plants ; a Tree's Perilous Life ; on 

 Tea, Cofiee, Chocolate, and Tobacco, Rocks, Stones, and Scenery, &c. 

 The author has had the advantage of extensive travel, and so has seen 

 the things he describes ; but in addition to this he has most diligently 

 searched the works of others for an enormous mass of interesting informa- 

 tion. The result is a most readable and instructive volume. Numerous 

 photos from nature as well as excellent ideal pictures (as of lake-dwellings 

 in early Britain) enhance the value of the work. 



