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Notices of Books and Papers. 
present state of the more important issues of the science. It might 
have been of interest to readers of the Annals of Botany had we 
entered in more detail into the subjects of the several chapters, 
but we content ourselves, for the present, with this brief notice of 
the book calling the attention of botanists to it, for we are glad 
to be able to say that Mr. Garnsey is adding another to the obli- 
gations under which the English-speaking botanical world already 
lies to him for his indefatigable labour in giving it access to standard 
German works, and is engaged in the preparation of a translation 
of the book which will be published by the Clarendon Press. It 
is to be hoped that in the course of the year the book in English 
dress will be within the reach of all English students, when they 
will be able to appreciate better than from a review the sterling 
excellence of Graf zu Solms-Laubach’s work. 
I. B. B. 
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. 
Bailey and Gordon : Plants reputed poisonous and injurious to stock. Bris- 
bane, Beal, 1887. — Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Vol. I. — The West American Scientist, No. 28. — Christ : Spicilegium canariense 
(Engler’s Jahrb. Bd. IX). — Cogniaux : Descriptions de quelques Cucurbitacees 
nouvelles (Bull. Acad. Roy. de Belgique, ser. 3, Tome XIV). — Drummond : The 
Prairies of Manitoba (Canadian Record of Science, III, 1888). — Id. : The Distri- 
bution, Physical and Past-Geological Relations of British North- American Plants 
(Canadian Record of Science III, 1888). — Durand : Index generum Phaneroga- 
marum. Melastomaceae et Cucurbitaceae auctore Cogniaux. — Engler : Angio- 
spermae. — Gilbert : Results of experiments at Rothamsted on the Growth of 
Root-crops for many years in succession on the same land (Agricult. Student’s 
Gazette, new ser., Vol. III). — Hartog : On the formation and liberation of the 
zoospores in the Saprolegnieae (Q. T. M. S., 1887). — Huxley and Martin : A 
course of elementary instruction in Practical Biology. Revised edition extended by 
Howes and Scott. London and New York. Macmillan. ■ — Ito : On a Species of 
Balanophora new to the Japanese Flora (Joum. Linn. Soc. XXIV). — Johannsen : 
Sur la Localisation de l’Emulsine dans les Amandes (Ann. Sci. Nat.). — Jean 
Jacques Kickx: Di scours prononces lors de ses funerailles. Gand, 1887. — Kny : 
Ueber Krystallbildung beim Kalkoxalat (Ber. deutsch. bot. Gesellsch. 1887). 
— Id. : Ueber Versuche zur Beantwortung der Frage, ob der auf Samen einwirkende 
Frost die Entwickelung der aus ihnen hervorgehenden Pflanzen beeinflusst 
(Sitzungsber. der Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde z. Berlin, 1887). — Lawes and 
Gilbert : On the present position of the question of the sources of the Nitrogen 
of Vegetation (Proc. Roy. Soc. 1887). — Lees : Report for the years 1884, 1885, 
1886 of the Botanical Record Club. Manchester, 1887. — Macmillan : Presi- 
dential address to the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland (Scottish Naturalist, 
1887). — McConnell : The Agricultural Depression. London, 1887. — M&ne : 
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