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SCIENTIFIC botanists are the audience specially addressed in Mr. Darwin's latest work, "The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species." The general reader will be apt to find himself confronted with data that are unintelligible to him, and with arguments which he will fail to comprehend; yet it is not difficult to catch the general drift of the discussion, and to see that the evidence tends to confirm Mr. Darwin's great theory of development by natural selection. The infinite care and patience which the author bestows upon all his investigations is shown to advantage in this work, and also the strictly limited nature of his conclusions. The dedication of the book to Professor Asa Gray is a worthy compliment to one of the greatest of living botanists and one of the most enlightened advocates of the Darwinian theory.

[The dedication reads: To Professor Asa Gray This volume is Dedicated By the author as a small tribute of respect and affection.]