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this seems, from its straightforwardness, and from the care with which the 
author has made use of recent contributions to apiarian literature, to he the 
best adapted to enable anyone of moderate intelligence to carry on Bee- 
cultivation with success. Besides its technical use, however, the little 
volume will prove of considerable interest, even to the general reader, who 
will be rather surprised at the ingenuity of some of the devices employed 
for the profitable government of the hive, which used to be regarded as a 
model republic. Andrew Fairservice, it will be remembered, described Bees 
as a “ contumacious generation,” because “ they liae sax days in the week 
to hive on, and yet it’s a common observe that they will aye swarm on the 
Sabbath-day, and keep folk at hame frae hearing the Word.” Had he lived 
in the present day, he would have learned that it was possible to make them 
swarm when he thought it most desirable. But the most remarkable inter- 
ference with the internal economy of the hive is the actual regulation of the 
constitution of its population, by the introduction of “ foundation combs ” 
fixing the size of the cells to be constructed, and consequently, in a bive with 
a healthy queen, the nature of the progeny to be reared. 
The little book is well and copiously illustrated. 
HEN a work has attained to the position as an educational text-book that 
is enjoyed b} r Hr. Atkinson’s English edition of Ganot’s “ Elements of 
Physics,” the reviewer’s work, as each successive issue makes its appearance, 
is reduced to a minimum. For all practical purposes, a mere statement of 
the fact is sufficient, and we have much pleasure in announcing the publica- 
tion of a ninth edition of the above-mentioned admirable handbook. In this, 
as in each previous issue, the bulk of the book has somewhat increased, so 
that it now constitutes a very stout volume, tending in fact to become portly 
with advancing years. In the present edition we find, besides a great num- 
ber of minor alterations and additions scattered throughout various chapters 
of the book, very clear and explanatory descriptions of those curious inven- 
tions which have made so much noise in the world during the last few 
years, such as the telephone, microphone, tasimeter, and phonograph ; the 
electric light also comes in for its share of attention ; and these popular 
subjects seem to occupy about half the twenty-five pages which, as Dr. 
Atkinson tells us, have been added to the bulk of the volume. 
A FTER the lapse of two and twenty years, the veteran American botanist, 
Professor Asa Gray, has commenced the publication of a new (sixth) 
* “ Elementary Treatise on Physics : Experimental and Applied.” Trans- 
lated and Edited from Ganot’s “ Elements de Physique,” by E. Atkinson, 
Ph.D., F.C.S. Ninth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo. London: 
Longmans. 1879. 
1 “ The Botanical Text-book.” Sixth edition. Part I. : — Structural 
Botany or Organography on the Basis of Morphology, &c. By Asa Gray, 
LL.D. 8vo. New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blackman, Taylor & Co.; 
London : Triibner. 1879. 
GANOT’S PHYSICS.* 
GRAY’S BOTANICAL TEXT-BOOK.f 
