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T iIE BKYOLOGIST — The only magazine in the Eng 
lish language devoted wholly to articles dealing with 
Mosses. Hepatics. and Lichens. Of interest to be- 
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AQUATIC LIFE. monthly magazine will 
^ increase your enjoyment 
of the life in nature’s streams and in your home 
aquarium. Written by scientists to entertain all 
nature lovers who like to paddle in water and 
study its manv forms of life. A journal of popu- 
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AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY 
(Founded in 1878 ) 
Publishes Its TRANSACTIONS as a 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Research. 
For information, write to 
P. S. WELCH, Secretary 
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 
And as to you Life, I reckon you are the 
leavings of many deaths; 
(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand 
times before.) 
— Walt Whitman. 
Useful Wild Plants of the United States 
and Canada. Bv Charles Francis Saun- 
ders. 275 pages illustrated by half-tones 
and drawings in the text. New York City : 
McBride & Company, 1920. 
This book contains chapters on edible bulbs, 
roots and tubers ; fruits and seeds ; stems and 
leaves ; beverage, medicinal and poisonous 
plants, with miscellaneous uses including soap, 
supplemented by a regional and general index. 
The New \ork Botanical Garden has supplied 
four of the plates from its guide-book and 
various other photographs illustrate this inter- 
esting and compact little volume.— E. G. Brit- 
ton, Honorary Curator New York Botanical 
Garden. 
Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant 
School. By Effie Young Slusser, Mary 
Belle Williams, Emma Burbank Beeson. 
Edited by Lillian McLean Waldo. With 
an Introduction by Luther Burbank. New 
\ork City: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 
A book written for the young but as emi- 
nently readable by the adult. It presents the 
problems of plant breeding, the development of 
new and improved varieties of food-producing 
and decorative plants, in a manner clear and 
interesting for the ordinary reader, who closes 
the book with a feeling that he has gained a 
real knowledge of the subject and an insight 
in evolution within the plant world at large, 
especially in the part taken by cross-pollination 
and selection. — F. E. B. 
AMERICAN FORESTRY 
MAGAZINE 
Membership entitles you to this Monthly, which, 
splendidly illustrated, appeals to every member of 
the family. Its articles give the best information 
about trees, woodlands, forests, birds, flowers and 
kindred subjects. It will keep you informed on 
the progress of the Memorial Tree planting, and 
on the work of restoration in Europe. 
The Association earnestly campaigns for better 
forestry conditions in America ; for laws which 
will permit the rebuilding of our destroyed forest 
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tect our forests in the future. 
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