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The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. By Charles Darwin. New York; D. Appleton St Co. For sale by Bailey & Noyes.

The second and revised edition of Mr. Darwin's essay on the movements and habits of climbing plants will be very welcome to students of science. In this edition, which the publishers have issued in a substantial and attractive form, some corrections, chiefly on form tending to make clearer the discussion of the theme, are made, and some additional facts are brought forward. Mr. Darwin has availed himself of some interesting observations made by Fritz Muller on the climbing plants of South Brazil, and of two important memoirs, on the difference in growth between the upper and lower sides of tendrils, and on the mechanism of the movements of twining plants by Dr. Hugo de Vries. These works have strengthened rather than modified his views on the gradual evolution of species. The illustrations in the volume, not numerous but quite necessary to the elucidation of the text, are drawn by the author's son, George Darwin.