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ON PLANTS IN RELATION TO ANIMALS. 
public examination under government supervision. The 
different subjects taught, are —First years course .—Animal 
physiology, the treatment of animals in health, the com¬ 
monest forms of disease prevalent among domestic animals, 
and the treatment thereof, rearing of young stock, feeding 
and nutritive value of the various fodders. Second years 
course .—Milk and its component parts, the influence of 
temperature upon the component parts of milk, use of the 
thermometer, the various methods of creaming, treatment of 
the cream before butter making, and treatment of butter, 
making butter from new and from skimmed milk, book¬ 
keeping by single and double entry. 
This system of female education for dairy purposes must 
prove useful in supplanting the blind system of routine by 
scientific method, he the latter ever so rudimentary. We 
can imagine, however, that a qualified practitioner would 
find these veterinary sages femmes occasionally de trop. In 
Denmark, too, young women have an opportunity of acquir¬ 
ing a scientific acquaintance with dairy husbandry. At the 
Copenhagen Royal Agricultural College, there is a chair 
especially devoted to this important branch of agricultural 
science. 
ON PLANTS IN RELATION TO ANIMALS. 
By Professor James Buckman, E.G.S., E.L.S., &c. 
[Continued from p. 722.) 
Before entering upon a description of the poppies we 
shall in this paper confine our attention to the water-lilies, 
reserving the poppies for our next. We prefer this course 
because the natural order, Nymphceaeea, contains plants in 
which the fruit or capsule is formed of loosely united pistils, 
which in the poppy become still more united and capsular. 
The order, in as far as our native genera and species are 
concerned, presents but few plants. These, however, are of 
great interest, whilst exotic examples are wonderful in the 
extreme, to show which fact we have only to mention the 
grand Victoria Regia , with leaves some six feet across, 
and flowers several inches in diameter, a native of Tropical 
America, or the beautiful Nelumbo from Tropical Asia, 
Bentham describes the order as follows : 
