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BOOK  REVIEWS. 
Applied  and  Economic  Botany.  Especially  adapted  for  the 
use  of  students  in  technical  schools,  agricultural,  pharmaceutical,  and 
medical  colleges,  and  also  as  a  book  of  reference  for  chemists,  food 
analysts,  and  students  engaged  in  the  morphological  and  physiological 
study  of  plants.  By  Henry  Kraemer,  Ph.B.  (in  Chemistry),  Ph.M. 
(in  Pharmacy),  Ph.D.  (in  Botany)  ;  Professor  of  Botany  and 
Pharmacognosy  and  Director  of  the  Microscopical  Laboratory  in  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy ;  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States ;  cor- 
responding member  of  the  Societe  de  Pharmacie  de  Paris,  etc. 
Illustrated,  with  424  plates,  comprising  about  2000  figures.  Pub- 
lished by  the  author,  145  North  Tenth  Street,  Philadelphia. 
This  text-book  of  applied  and  economic  botany  is  a  volume  singu- 
larly in  harmony  with  the  drift  of  thought  of  practical  workers  and 
decidedly  in  advance  of  present-day  practices  in  schools  and 
colleges.  Even  a  casual  survey  of  the  volume  impresses  one  with  the 
impracticability  of  reflecting  an  adequate  appreciation  of  the  book 
in  the  limited  space  that  can  be  devoted  to  a  review  in  a  current 
journal,  and  nothing  more  will  be  attempted  at  this  time  than  the 
.recording  of  a  few  thoughts  on  the  probable  uses  of  the  work  in 
the  near  future.  To  a  man  interested  in  observing  the  trend  of  com- 
mercial pursuits  it  is  becoming  more  evident  that  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  botany  is  essential  to  the  practical  worker,  and  that  an  in- 
timate knowledge  of  vegetable  cells  and  cell-contents  is  of  value  not 
alone  to  the  pharmacist  and  the  medical  man,  but  also  to  the  chemist, 
