KERNER AND OLIVER’S NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
A work for reference or continuous reading, at once popular and, in the modern sense, 
thoroughly scientific. With 16 colored plates and 1,000 wood engravings. Four parts. 
4to. Cloth. $15.00, net. 
The Nation : “The author evidently planned at the outset to take every attractive feature of 
plants of all grades, and place these attractive features in the very best light. For this purpose he 
has skilfully employed a brilliant style of exposition, and he has not hesitated to use illustrations in 
black and in color with the freest hand. The purpose has been attained. He has succeeded in con- 
structing a popular work on the phenomena of vegetation which is practically without any rival. 
The German edition has been accepted from the first as a useful treatise for the instruction of the 
public ; in fact, some of its illustrations have been taken bodily from the volumes by museum cura- 
tors, to enrich exhibition cases designed for the people. With two exceptions, the full-page colored 
plates leave little to be desired, and might well find a place in every public museum in which botany 
has a share. Most of the minor engravings are unexceptionable. They are clear, and almost wholly 
free from distracting details which render worthless so many illustrations in popular works on natural 
history. Professor Kerner’s style in German is seldom obscure — it is what one might fairly call easy 
reading ; but it is no disparagement to him and his style to state that the translation is clearer than 
the original throughout In the first two issues the author was engaged chiefly with the 
study of the structure of the plant, and its adaptation to its surroundings. In this concluding volume 
he considers the plant from the point of view of its relation to others. Therefore he begins with a 
full and absorbingly interesting account of reproduction in the vegetable kingdom, and then passes 
to an examination of species With this book, there is no excuse for even busy people to 
be ignorant of how the other half, the plant half, lives.” 
Botanical Gazette : “ Kerner’s work in English will do much toward bringing modern botany 
before the intelligent public. We need more of this kind of teaching that will bring those not pro- 
fessionally interested in botany to some realization of its scope and great interest.” 
Professor J. E. Humphrey : “It ought to sell largely here to colleges and public libraries, as well 
as to individuals, and I can heartily commend it.” 
Professor John M. Cozilter, in The Dial : “ It is such books as this that will bring botany fairly 
before the public as a subject of absorbing interest ; that will illuminate the botanical lecture-room ; 
that will convert the Gradgrind of our modern laboratory into a student of nature.” 
OTHER IMPORTANT BOTANICAL WORKS, 
Arthur, Barnes, and Coulter’s Handbook of Plant Dissection. 
By Professors J. C. Arthur of Purdue University, Charles R. Barnes of University of Wisconsin, 
and President John M. Coulter of Lake Forest University, xi -f- 256 pp. i2mo. $1.20, net. 
Treating of Green Slime, Dark Green Scum, Common Pond Scum, White Rust, Lilac Mildew, 
Common Liverwort, Moss, Maidenhair Fern, Scotch Pine, Field Oats, Trillium, and Shepherd’s- 
purse. There is also a chapter of general suggestions on apparatus and manipulation. 
Beal’s Grasses of North America. 
By Prof. W. J. Beal of Michigan Agricultural College. Fully illustrated. 2 vols. (sold separately). 
Vol. I. On the Physiology, Composition, Selection, Improving and Cultivation of Grasses; Man- 
agement of Grass Lands; Clovers, Injurious Insects, and Fungi. 457 pp. 8vo. $2.50, net. 
Vol. II. The Grasses Classified, Described, and Each Genus Illustrated, with Chapters on their 
Geographical Distribution, and a Bibliography. 707 pp. 8vo. $5.00, net. 
Bessey’s Botany. 
By Professor Charles E. Bessey of the University of Nebraska. American Science Series, Advanced 
Course. Revised. x-J-611 pp. 8vo. $2.20, net. 
Briefer Course. With an Introductory Chapter on the Gross Anatomy of Flowering Plants, and 
an Appendix. Entirely New Edition, 1896. vii + 356 pp. l2mo. $1.12 , net. 
Crozier’s Dictionary of Botanical Terms. 
By A. A. Crozier. vi-j-222 pp. 8vo. $2.40, net. 
Hackel’s True Grasses. 
Translated from “ Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien,” by F. Lamson Scribner and Effie A. South- 
worth. v — (— 228 pp. 8vo. $1.50. 
MacDougal’s Experimental Plant Physiology. 
On the basis of Oels’ “ Pflanzenphysiologische Versuche.” By D. T. MacDougal, University of 
Minnesota, vi + 88 pp. 8vo. $1.0 o, net. 
A manual of elementary experiments with living plants, not too difficult, perhaps, for high-school 
pupils who have had a course in general botany. 
Price’s Fern Collector’s Handbook and Herbarium. 
By Miss Sadie F. Price. With 72 plates. 4to. 
Underwood’s Our Native Ferns and their Allies. 
With Synoptical Descriptions of the American Pteridophyta North of Mexico. By Professor Lucien 
M. Underwood of DePauw University. Fifth Edition , Revised, xii-l-156 pp. i2mo. , $1.00, net. 
Zimmermann’s Botanical Microtechnique. 
Translated by J. Ellis Humphreys, S.D. xii -(-296 pp. 8vo. $2.50, net. 
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