[*] “Dr. Wertheimer has chosen wisely to present the details of a sad career with the fulness, the accuracy, and the impartiality of a scholar.”
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West, George Stephen. Treatise on the British freshwater algae. [*]$3.50. Macmillan.
“Certainly there is no book upon any phase of cryptogamic botany for which there has been so much need, and for which the demand in recent years, has been so great, as one dealing comprehensively with the freshwater algæ.... A good general discussion of the methods of multiplication and reproduction in algæ, together with a reference to the question of polymorphism and a rather full exposition of the particular theories of the author regarding phylogeny, precedes the specific treatment of the six classes, Rhodophyceæ, Phaeophyceæ, Chlorophyceæ, Heterokonteæ, Bacillarieæ, and Myxophyceæ.... The book is fully illustrated and too much cannot be said for the successful effort to secure new and accurate drawings of not only the more recently described genera, but for the older forms as well.”—Science.
“The work has been thoroughly done throughout, and its value is greatly increased by an exhaustive index. The plates are sufficiently characteristic for most identifications, and the descriptions and keys are good.”
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“Is particularly well qualified to write such a book. The need of a treatise upon the freshwater algæ has been referred to; that this book will come as near to filling such a need as one of its scope, written by one man, could possibly be expected, is all that is necessary to say regarding its worth.” George T. Moore.
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West, W. K. George Frederick Watts. $1.25. Warne.
A biographical sketch of Watts by W. K. West, with an essay on his art, and an outline of the sixty-five pictures reproduced in the book, by Romualdo Pantini.