By Prof. C. S. Sargent. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Morris K. Jesup, the President of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, collected specimens of all the woods of the United States, and submitted them to Prof. C. S. Sargent to arrange and elucidate. Only a few have not yet been secured. This work by Prof. Sargent is intended as a guide to the collection. Life-size colored drawings are still in preparation. It gives an account of everything relating to trees as wood that can be ascertained, so far as they are trees of the United States, and is undoubtedly the most intelligent contribution to dendrology that has ever appeared in our country.