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Books and Pamphlets received, 
matter for regret that the extensive collection at Kew and at the 
British Museum could only be rapidly glanced at, and that the types 
of Professor Lawson s monograph of the Indian forms in Hooker’s 
Flora of British India were not examined. 
I. B. B. 
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. 
Alford-Nicholls, H. A. : The cultivation of the Lime (Antigua Churchman, 
1887). — Ascherson, P., and Schweinfurth, G. : Illustration de la Flore 
d’tigypte. Le Caire, 1887. — Bary, A. de: Lectures on Bacteria, 2nd improved 
edition. Translated by H. E. F. Gamsey. Revised by Isaac Bayley Balfour. 
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887. — Bigelow, R. P. : On the Structure of the frond 
in Champia parvula, Harv. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sciences. Vol. XXIII, 
1887). — Bower, F. O. : Note on a Morphological peculiarity of Cordylhie australis 
(Proc. Phil. Soc. Glasgow. Vol. XVIII, 1886-87}. — Id. : On Humboldtia 
laurifolia , Vahl, as a Myrmecophilous plant {ibid.). — Bower, F. O., and Vines, 
S. H. : A course of practical instruction in Botany, Part II. London, Macmillan, 
1887. — Cantley, N. : Annual report on the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, for 
the year 1886. Singapore, 1887. — Id.: Report on the Forest Department, Straits 
Settlements, for the year 1886. Singapore, 1887. — Correvon : Liste des plantes 
de montagnes elevees au Jardin d’Acclimatation de Geneve. — Deflers, A. : 
Herborisations dans les montagnes volcaniques d’Aden (Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, 
Tom. XXXII). — Drummond, A. T. : The distribution and physical and past 
geological relations of British North American plants (Canadian Record of Science. 
Vol. II. Nos. 7 and 8. 1887). — Farlow, W. G. : The Task of American 
Botanists (The Popular Science Monthly, July 1887). — Id. : Vegetable parasites 
and evolution. The Presidential address before the Section of Biology, American 
Assoc, for Advancement of Science, August 1887. Proc. Vol. XXXIII. — Id.: 
Aecidium on Juniperus virginiana (Botan. Gazette, Vol. XII, No. 9). — 
Ferguson, Wm. : A Bazaar drug called Gunta Barnigi, Bhooi Jamb, Siritekku, 
etc., identified as Premna herbacea Roxb., and other notes. Colombo, 1887. — 
Fream, W. : Preventive losses in Agriculture (Read before the Economic Section 
of Brit. Assoc., 1887). — Geddes, P. : A restatement of the cell-theory (Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Edin. Vol. XII (1883-84). — Id.: Theory of Growth, Reproduction, 
Sex and Heredity (Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. 1885-86). — Id.: A Synthetic 
Outline of the History of Biology (Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. 1885-86). — Id. : Syllabus 
of course of twelve lectures on the outlines of Modern Botany. — Gray, Asa : 
Lessons in Botany. Iveson Blakeman and Co., New York, 1887. — Greene, 
E. L. : Pittonia ; a series of botanical papers. Vol. I, Parts 1 and 2. Berkeley, 
California, 1887. — Id.: Studies in the Botany of California and parts adjacent, 
VI (Bull. Californ. Acad, of Sc. II. 7, T887). — Green, J. R. : On the changes 
in the proteids in the seed which accompany germination (Phil. Trans. Vol. 178, 
1887. — Halsted, B. D. : Bulletin of the Iowa Agricultural College, from the 
botanical department, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1887. — Joly, Ch.: Note sur l’exposition 
horticole de Florence. Rougier et Cie., Paris, 1887. — Lawes, Sir J. B. : 
Memoranda of the origin, plan, and results of the Field and other experiments 
conducted on the farm and in the laboratory of Sir J. B. Lawes at Rothamsted, 
Herts. June, 1887. — Lubbock, Sir John ; Phytobiological observations on the 
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