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" British Wild Flowers : Their Haunts and Associations." By 
W. Graveson. 8vo. 320 pp. With fifty plates, illustrating over one 
hundred species. (Headley, London, 1917.) 7s. 6d. net. 
This work consists of twenty-eight chapters, referring to wild 
flowers in different months, as well as in clover fields, chalk hills, 
sea cliffs, woods, riverside, moor and mountain, salt marshes and 
dunes. 
There is a monthly Floral Calendar (31 pp.)> Index to Flowers 
(8 pp.)- 
This book is not "intended for the study of botany/' but as an agree- 
able companion for the dilettante. Numerous interesting facts about 
many wild flowers are culled from some seventy writers, among whom 
Gerard and Shakespeare stand foremost. 
The illustrations, coloured and plain, are valuable additions to the 
volume. 
"The Early Naturalists: Their Lives and Work" (1530-1789). 
By L. C. Miall, D.Sc, F.R.S. 8vo. 396 pp. (Macmillan, London, 
1912.) 10s. net. 
This is a valuable work. It is divided into nine sections, headed 
as follows : (I.) The New Biology, " The Revival of Botany, from 
Brunf els to Rondelet " (to 1 566) . (II .) The Natural History of Distant 
Lands (to end of sixteenth century). (III.) Early English Naturalists 
and O. de Serres (1619). (IV.) Ray, Willughby, and Lister (1712). (V.) 
The Minute Anatomists, Hooke, Malpighi, Grew, Swammerdam, and 
Leeuwenhoek (1723). (VI.) Early Studies in Comparative Anatomy ; 
Redi, Perrault, and French and English Contemporaries (1708). (VII.) 
The School of Reaumur (1892). (VIII.) Linnaeus and the Jussieus 
(1778). (IX.) Buffon (1789, and later). Index. 
Dr. Miall is so well known as an accurate scientist that we need only 
say that all the sections are equally and thoroughly well done, concisely 
but efficiently. 
"Field Crops for the Cotton Belt." By James Oscar Morgan, M.S. A., 
Ph.D., Professor of Agronomy in the Agricultural and Mechanical 
College of Texas. 8vo. xxvi + 456 pp. With 75 illustrations in the 
text. (Macmillan, New York, 1917.) js. 6d. net. 
This addition to the " Rural Science Text-books " is on the same 
lines as the previous volumes of this valuable series, and as its title 
implies it treats of field-crops suitable for cultivation within the area 
where cotton is the principal crop. About one-third of the total 
number of pages is devoted to cotton, the other crops dealt with being 
maize or Indian corn, oats, wheat, rye, rice, sorghums (millets), sugar- 
cane, and pea-nuts, or ground-nuts as they are called in this country. 
Although the climatic conditions that prevail in the cotton belt of 
the United States of America are different from those in this country, 
there is much that the British farmer and agricultural student could 
earn regarding certain of the crops mentioned, for the author quite 
