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INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS – by Charles Darwin. M.A. F.R.S. New York, D. Appleton & Co.; Davenport, Day, Egbert & Fidlar: 800 pp. 453

This is another of those invaluable additions to the scientists' and naturalists' library, which have made and are making Darwin's name the most popular of the XIX century. Treating of the most recondite and occult operations of nature, illustrated with interesting [plates], this book will be valued by every student in natural history, and will confirm and heighten the fame of its author as the most diligent investigator of the present day.