  The roman numbers refer to the pages, and italicised numbers to the figures THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS THEIR FORMS, GROWTH, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION FROM THE GERMAN OF THE LATE Translated By F. W. OLIVER, M.A., D.Sc. WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF With about Two Thousand Original Woodcut Illustrations “The best account of the vegetable kingdom for general readers which has yet been produced.”—Nature. ANCIENT PLANTS A SIMPLE ACCOUNT OF THE PAST VEGETATION OF THE EARTH AND OF RECENT IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN THAT REALM OF NATURE STUDY By MARIE C. STOPES, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S. Fully Illustrated. Demy 8vo, 4s. 6d. net “Dr. Marie Stopes has made a name for herself in this special line. Anyone who takes an intelligent interest in the subject cannot fail to be charmed with the pleasant manner in which Dr. Stopes conveys her information.”—AthenÆum. NATURE STUDIES By G. F. SCOTT ELLIOT, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S., F.R.G.S. Illustrated by Drawings, Photographs, Microscope Specimens, &c. 3s. 6d. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY AND ITS RECENT ADVANCES By J. ARTHUR THOMSON M.A. Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen Cloth, 2s. 6d.; bound in Leather for Presentation, 3s. 6d. A FIRST COURSE IN PRACTICAL BOTANY By G. F. SCOTT ELLIOT, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S., F.R.G.S. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. A combined course of flower-study, experiments, microscope work, and explanation, with over 150 illustrations. “We may say at once that this work is one of the best of its kind in English. The illustrations and diagrams, with which the book abounds, are of the highest character.”—Guardian. THE STUDENT’S INTRODUCTORY TEXT-BOOK OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY By JOSEPH W. OLIVER Lately Lecturer in Botany and Geology at the Birmingham Municipal Technical School Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 4s. 6d. “The author has wisely chosen the natural and sensible method of commencing with the lowest forms of vegetable life, and tracing the gradual evolution of the plant upwards to its most complicated forms, and he has further given excellent descriptions of readily accessible types, so that the student will easily be able to verify for himself all the more important statements. The book is, moreover, copiously and well illustrated.... For the student, for whom it is written, it is calculated to be of great service, and we can most cordially recommend it.”—Oxford Magazine. ELEMENTARY BOTANY By JOSEPH W. OLIVER New Edition, revised and enlarged By W. B. GROVE, M.A. F’cap 8vo, cloth, 2s. “Mr. Oliver deals first with general morphology, next with the anatomy of plants, and then with their physiology. From this point he proceeds to deal with flowers—their morphology and physiology—and in the concluding chapters we have the classification and description treated. The illustrations are very plentiful, and there is a capital index.”—Education. THE PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE A SERIES OF PRACTICAL SCIENTIFIC LESSONS By WILFRED MARK WEBB, F.L.S. Illustrated. F’cap 4to, cloth, 2s. net BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, 50 OLD BAILEY, LONDON, E.C. |
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