A Teat-Book of Botany. By Drs. E. Strasburger, H. Schenck,
Fritz Noll, and A. F. W. Schimper. Translated from the German by H. C. Porter, Ph.D., Assistant-Instructor of Botany. University of Pennsylvania. With 694 Illustrations, in part coloured. (Macmillan and Co. 18s. net.)—Science is of no country, and we are always glad to see the usefulness of a good book increased by its receiving a wider circulation by means of translation. The present work seems to be a very full and complete account of the general subject of botany, and is divided into four principal sec- tions,—Morphology, Physiology, Cryptogams, and Phanerogamia. In the two latter sections the characters, Ise., of the principal orders of plants are briefly summed up, and a number of repre- sentative species are illustrated, many of them by coloured figures in the text, somewhat of a novelty in illustration, which we have not often noticed before. The book is very well brought out, and the illustrations, both coloured and plain, are excellent. At the end of the volume we find lists of the officinal and poisonous plants mentioned, and a general index.
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