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BRITISH PLANTS * 
learn from the Preface to this little volume that the illustrated 
edition of Mr. Bentham’s Handbook of the Bi'itish Flora has been 
exhausted, and we presume that, probably for good reasons, the publishers 
have no present intention of bringing out a new one. Under these circum- 
stances they have decided upon printing separately the beautiful and charac- 
teristic series of small woodcuts of British Flowering plants and Ferns, drawn 
by those excellent botanical artists, MM. Fitch and W orthington Smith, and 
issuing them in a small volume at a low price. New figures of the species 
admitted into the British Flora since the publication of the illustrated Hand- 
book have been added, and the little book may thus be used as illustrative 
of the later editions of Mr. Bentham’s, or of any other Flora. To facili- 
tate reference in the latter case, the index, which follows the nomenclature 
of the original work, includes a good many synonyms indicated by Italic 
type. The figures themselves are too well known to need any words of 
commendation from us. 
^TTHS is a very convenient and useful little book, which may be of service 
when wanted, there would be little need of this book. It is intended to 
f 01 m the basis of a course of lessons, illustrated by experiments according to 
the requirements of the class and the resources of the teacher, and it may be 
would desire the class to take down and learn.’ The Notes are contained in 
rather more than a hundred pages, and comprise plain statements with simple 
formulae upon Sound, Light, Heat, Magnetism, and Frictional and Voltaic 
Electricity. An Appendix of about fifty pages is devoted to examination 
papers, with references to the paragraphs in which the solution of each 
question occurs. The writer of this notice has found the little work ex- 
tremely handy as a skeleton form from which to lecture, and still more as a 
basis on which to found a brief resume of the preceding, with which it 
appears to him judicious to commence each subsequent lecture. 
* Illustrations of the British Flora; a series of wood-engravings, ivith 
dissections, of British Flants. Drawn by W. H. Fitch and W. G. Smith. 
Sm. 8vo. London : L. Reeve and Co. 1880. 
t Lecture Notes on Physics. By Charles Bird, B.A., F.R.A.S., Second 
Master in the Bradford Grammar School. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 
Snaall 8 vo, pp. 178. 
PHYSICS.f 
both to pupil and teacher. Its object is simply described in the preface : 
‘ If schoolboys’ notes could be taken down satisfactorily, and always found 
supposed to represent the notes — somewhat expanded— which the teacher 
W. H. Stone. 
