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OPINIONS. "This is an eminently useful manual by Mr. K. Rangachari, M. A., L. T., Assistant, Madras Government Museum, and sometime lecturer in Botany in the Presidency College. The book is intended to serve the purposes of a text book in this subject in Elementary schools. A special merit of the book is that it is not a translation of English text books on Botany having no bearing on Indian conditions, but is entirely original, written by one who is an expert in the higher branches of Botany and has himself carried on original researches in this line. All the illustrations are drawn from the orders of plants met with everywhere in India ; and this has enabled the author to realise his main aim in writing the book, viz., to present to the Tamil speaking people in their every day language an account of the main features of plant life. The method adopted by Mr. Rangachari in the treatment of the subject is calculated to achieve the object he has set before himself. This book anticipates the need which is sure to arise in connection with the new system of rural schools in the Presidency inaugurated by the Hon'ble Dr. Bourne, where children of the agricultural classes are intended to be trained in nature-study by observation of plant life in school gardens, which are to be a special feature of the schools ; and one cannot conceive a more fascinating subject of study for an Indian child, under proper direction and guidance, than elementary botany." Madras Mail.