j 76 Analyses of Books. [March, 
latter. An Appendix to this section treats of media for mounting 
and of cements. 
The second chapter describes, seriatim, the chief vegetable 
substances and the methods for their recognition. The entire 
work, within its very limited compass, is excellent, and will be 
found a safe guide to the student in vegetable physiology. 
Longman's Magazine. No. XVII. March, 1884. 
The only article in this ably conduced magazine which we feel 
competent to notice is one entitled “ Queer Fishes.” It gives a 
popular and sketchy, but not the less essentially accurate, ac- 
count of some of the strangest developments of fish life, — of 
venomous fish, blind fish, fish that travel on land and are even 
said to climb trees. The only queer fish omitted is the marksman- 
fish, which, so to speak, shoots flies sitting on waterside plants 
by projecting at them a drop of water. 
Many important works stand over for want of space. 
