INSTRUCTIVE PICTURE BOOK.^ 
OR 
LESSONS FROM THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
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BY 
THE AUTHOR OF “THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE” AND “THE HERR OF THE FIELD.” 
ILLUSTRATED WITH 31 COLOURED PLATES. ARRANGED BY ROBERT M. STARK, 
FELLOW OF THE BOTANICAL AND ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETIES, EDINBURGH, AUTHOR OF “A POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH MOSSES.” 
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“It is a fallacy to regard memory as a vessel which receives and retains impartially what may happen to be poured 
into it: it is only what has awakened a child’s interest that it remembers tenaciously, and recollects quickly; and only those 
impressions awaken a child’s interest which are adapted to the stage and condition of its mind, which gratify, and excite while 
they gratify, its appetite for knowledge. Now, can it be doubted that it is external objects which most attract and fix the 
attention of children, and which are consequently most naturally, easily, and permanently remembered! This vast field, 
partitioned as it has been among very many sciences, for which collectively we want an adequate title, and of which we 
would now mention only one, though a very comprehensive division —Natural History— affords most ample materials through 
the longest school course, for developing as well as storing the youthful understanding, and for arousing the young wonder and 
sense of beauty.” -— Dr. W. D. Hodgson, in Westminster Review, October 1853. 
EDINBURGH: 
EDMONSTON & DOUGLAS, 87 PRINCES STREET. 
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