DR. ASA GRAY’S Botanical Series, New York, Ivison & Phinney, consisting of— I. How Plants Grow, etc., with a Popular Flora, etc. 16mo. pp. 233. II. First Lessons ...

IN his far-reaching essay on “Education,” Mr. Herbert Spencer remarks: “In education the process of self-development should be encouraged to the uttermost. Children should be led to make their own ...

Familiar lessons in Botany with flora of Texas (1873) by M.J. Young was analyzed to establish how many nomenclatural novelties it contains. The flora portion of the book, written with the assistance ...

IT is not perhaps very often that elementary scientific books of the type to which the volume before us belongs, either meets with, or indeed deserves, much success. It is with the greater pleasure, ...