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Of books of a technical kind, we have received :—Guide

to the Literature of Botany, by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (published for the Index Society, by Longmans) ; Organs and Organ-building, by G. A. Edwards (Bazaar Office); Auditors : Their Duties and Responsi- bilities, by Francis W. Pixley (Effingham Wilson) ; Electrotyping, by J. W. Urquahart, C.E. (Crosby Lockwood) ; and Diseases of the Ear, by R. F. Cooper, M.D. (Homceopathic Publishing Company).