THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
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who will be glad to meet any of his readers who may chance 
to attend. 
The other day the editor of this magazine had an agree- 
able surprise, which he here purposes to pass along to his 
readers. Having occasion to order some books from D. 
Appleton & Co., of New York, he included in the order a 
cop}^ of "The Plant World." It is probably unnecessary to 
add that the "Plant World" meant is not the magazine of 
that name, but the book by Frank Vincent, with the same 
title. W^e expected some treatise on the vegetable kingdom 
by a single writer, but were much pleased to find a series 
of fifty selections about plants from the master botanists of 
the world, such as Haeckel, Hartwig, Gage, M. C. Cooke, 
etc. These selections cover a wide range of subjects, from 
pitcher plants and pumpkins to palms, ferns, sea-weeds and 
the baobab. The book was issued eight years ago, and pos- 
sibly most of our readers have seen it, but if not, it strikes 
us that all who like the general run of the articles appearing 
in the American Botanist will take pleasure in owning this 
book, which contains 225 pages and costs but 65 cents. 
This notice is not a book review, and is printed here solely 
because we think our readers will enjov this exxellent little 
volume. 
At the end of the present school year. Dr. William 
Whitman Baile\^, who has so long held the chair of botany 
at Brown University, will resign his office into the hands 
of his assistant. Prof. J. Franklin Collins. Eh". Baile\- is 
among the best-known of the older group of botanists and 
has enjoyed the friendship of nearly all the great men in 
his line of the generation that is [XLSsing. He is by no 
means an old man and while his health does not permit of 
the activities of scliool lite we hope to have him with us for 
many years to come. May he live until the nomenclature 
question is settled to the satisfaction of everv'body! 
