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within the county. A careful account of the topography, climate and 

 geological structure of the county is followed by an interesting survey 

 of the progress of botanical investigation therein, increased in value by 

 a long list of publications dealing with the Cornish flora, comparative 

 tables showing the composition of the flora and its relations with 

 neighbouring ones, and portraits of those six ardent botanists the 

 Eev. C. A. Johns, sometime Charles Kingsley's botanical instructor ; 

 James Cunnack, the bookseller of Helston ; William Curnow, the market 

 gardener of Penzance ; John Ealfs, perhaps the greatest of all the Cornish 

 botanists and most modest of men ; T. A. Briggs, the author of the " Flora 

 of Plymouth " ; and E. V. Tellam, sometime a farmer ; to every one of whom 

 Cornish natural history is indebted. If any fault can be found with the 

 book, judging it for what it is, and not for what it does not pretend to be, 

 it is that the lists of localities are sometimes unnecessarily full. It seems 

 unnecessary to give long lists of localities for such generally distributed 

 plants as Anemone nemorosa, Bartsia viscosa and so on. On the other 

 hand some interesting absences are noticeable in the list, for instance 

 Campanula rotundifolia, so common in most parts of England, has only 

 recently been recorded for the district around Penzance and is rare in 

 other parts of the county, and Lysimachia Nummularia is found in only 

 three out of the eight divisions of the county. One is thankful the author 

 has refrained from publishing a list of localities for Osmnnda regalis, for 

 the " collector " is all too eager to root it up. One remembers with sorrow 

 Wise's statement that the road between Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst, 

 in the New Forest, is lined with royal ferns — is ? — was, rather ! Where 

 are they now ? 



" An Introduction to the Study of Biology." By J. W. Kirkaldy 

 and J. M. Drummond. 8vo., iv + 259 pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 

 1909.) 6s. 6d. 



The present book contains a course for the upper forms of schools and 

 deals with the usual types of animals and plants. The " type system " is 

 adhered to, but its evils are to some extent minimized by the intercalation 

 of other connecting links between those usually studied. The language 

 of the book is rather less technical than we often find in books of this 

 class, but it does not always run easily ; rather it reminds one in places 

 of the diction of a note-book. A commendable feature is the attention 

 given to the physiology of the different plants and animals dealt with. 



Many of the illustrations have done duty before, and these are mostly 

 good, but several are new, somewhat diagrammatic, and lack that fineness 

 of line which was familiar in the days of steel-engravings, and so much 

 more nearly approached nature. The lines of the beautiful "bell 

 animalcule " are rather caricatured than pictured, and many look like 

 reproductions of note-book illustrations. 



" Physiography for Schools." By Professor E. D. Salisbury. 8vo., 

 viii + 531 pp. (Murray, London, 1909.) 65. net. 



Those familiar with the larger text-book by the same author will be 

 prepared to find in this smaller work an excellent guide for the younger 

 student and an inspiring example for the teacher. They will not be 



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