TWENTIETH CENTURY TEXT-BOOKS. 
Plant Relations. 
A First Book of Botany. By John M. Coulter, 
A. M., Ph. D., Head of Department of Botany, 
University of Chicago. i2mo. Cloth, $1.10 net. 
"' Plant Relations' is charming both in matter and style. The book is 
superbly manufactured, letterpress and illustration yielding the fullest measure 
of delight from every page." — TV. McK. Vance, Superintendent of Schools, 
Urban a, Ohio. 
" I am extremely pleased with the text-book, i Plant Relations.' " — H. 
W. Conn, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 
"Dr. Coulter's 'Plant Relations,' a first text-book of botany, is a wholly 
admirable work. Both in plan and in structure it is a modern and scientific 
book. It is heartily recommended. " — Educational Review. 
"It is a really beautiful book, the illustrations being in many cases simply 
exquisite, and is written in the clear, direct, and simple style that the author 
knows so well how to use. A very strong feature of the work is the promi- 
nence given to ecological relations, which I agree with Dr. Coulter should be 
made the leading subject of study in the botany of the preparatory schools." — 
V. M. Spalding, University of Michigan. 
" We can hardly conceive of a wiser way to introduce the pupil to the fas- 
cinating study of botany than the one indicated in this book." — Education. 
"The book is a marvel of clearness and simplicity of expression, and that, 
too, without any sacrifice of scientific accuracy. " — School Review. 
"It marks the passage of the pioneer stage in botanical work, and affords 
the student a glimpse of a field of inquiry higher than the mere tabulation and 
classification of facts." — C. H. Gordon, Superintendent of Schools, Lincoln, Neb. 
" It will surely be a Godsend for those high-school teachers who are strug- 
gling with insufficient laboratory equipment, and certainly presents the most 
readable account of plants of any single elementary book I have seen." — L. M. 
Underwood, Columbia University. 
" We heartily recommend his book as one of the clearest and simplest pres- 
entations of plant relations that we have seen." — Independent. 
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. 
