A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 2 (of 2)

This book is thoroughly authoritative, and is written in popular style. It covers all the ferns in the region embraced either in Britton's or in Gray's Manuals.

"This book is likely to prove the leading popular work on ferns. No finer examples of fern photography have ever been produced. Dr. Waters brings to his work fifteen years of experience in field and herbarium study, and the book may be expected to prove of permanent scientific value, as well as to satisfy a want which existing treatises have but imperfectly filled."—Plant World.

"For all who study or wish to study our native ferns Dr. Waters has prepared a book which is sure to prove both helpful and inspiring. Especially charming and significant are the views showing typical habits and habitats."—The American Naturalist.

"There could hardly be a better book for those interested in the subject."—Boston Literary World.

"The elementary part is clear and well calculated to introduce beginners to the study of the plants treated of. The excellent key makes the analysis of ferns comparatively easy. The writer cordially commends the book. It should be in the hands of all who are especially interested in the vascular cryptogams of the United States."—Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, N. Y.

Chas. D. Walcott, Director of U. S. Geological Survey: "I am impressed with the admirable plan of the work and with the thorough manner in which geological principles and processes and their results have been presented. The text is written in an entertaining style and is supplemented by admirable illustrations, so that the student cannot fail to obtain a clear idea of nature and the work of geological agencies, of the present status of the science, and of the spirit which actuates the working geologist."

T. A. Jaggar, Jr., Harvard University: "An excellent statement of modern American geology, with abundant new illustrative material based upon the most recent work of government and other surveys."

Henry S. Williams, Yale University: "It is the best treatise on this part of the subject which we have seen in America."

R. S. Woodward, Columbia University: "It is admirable for its science, admirable for its literary perfection, and admirable for its unequalled illustrations."

Israel C. Russell, University of Michigan. "I deem it an epoch-making book and one that will vastly extend the study of geology."

A work for reference or continuous reading, at once popular and, in the modern sense, thoroughly scientific. The new edition is practically identical with the former four-volume edition except that the colored plates in the latter have been omitted. The wood-engravings, over two thousand in number, have been retained.

Prof. John M. Coulter, in The Dial: "Prof. Kerner has brought the most recent researches within reach of the intelligent reader, and in a style so charming that even the professional teacher may learn a lesson in the art of presentation.... It is such books as this that will bring botany fairly before the public as a subject of absorbing interest; that will illuminate the botanical lecture-room."

Prof. Chas. R. Barnes, in The Botanical Gazette: "This lucidity, and the excellent illustrations, not only will introduce the non-botanical reader to the science of botany, but should serve as a lesson to the professional botanist in the art of presentation."

The Nation: "He has succeeded in constructing a popular work on the phenomena of vegetation which is practically without any rival."

A modern and thoroughly scientific discussion of the general principles of plant physiology, intended for the student or general reader acquainted with the elements of botany.

Science: "The volume is full of original suggestions and differs quite markedly from the old-time works devoted to plant physiology."

William F. Ganong, Professor in Smith College: "I am much pleased with the clearness, proportion, and vigor with which it treats the subject. It seems to me an admirable exposition of the principles of plant physiology as they are understood at the present day, and it should have a wide use."

Educational Review:—"It would be difficult to conceive of a more attractive and useful book.... In addition to its general attractiveness and the beauty of its illustrations, it is written in a style well calculated to win the merest tyro."

Bradley M. Davis, in the Botanical Gazette:—"Wonderfully free from the dry diagnoses of most systematic descriptions, and everywhere combined with interesting accounts of life-habits and activities.... A marvel in its compactness, with a wonderfully uniform tone throughout, condensed and yet very clear."

This manual is published in response to a demand for a handbook suitable for ordinary school use, which shall meet modern requirements and outline modern conceptions of the science. It is based on An Illustrated Flora prepared by Professor Britton in co-operation with Judge Addison Brown, in three volumes. The text has been revised and brought up to date, and much of novelty has been added, but all illustrations are omitted.

Conway MacMillan, Professor in the University of Minnesota, in Science:—"There is no work extant in the whole series of American botanical publications which deals with descriptions of the flowering plants that can for a moment be compared with it, either for a skillful and delightful presentation of the subject-matter or for modern, scientific, and accurate mastery of the thousandfold mass of detail of which such a work must consist."

V. M. Spalding, Professor in the University of Michigan:—"I regard the book as one that we cannot do without and one that will henceforth take its place as a necessary means of determination of the plant species within its range."