AN INTRODUCTION TO MRS. LINCOLN'S LECTURES ON BOTANY. FOR THE USE OF COMMON SCHOOLS AND THE YOUNGER PUPILS OF HIGHER SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES. BY MRS. PHELPS, AUTHOR OF FAMILIAR LECTURES ON BOTANY. STEREOTYPE EDITION. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY HUNTINGTON AND SAVAGE, 216 PEARL STREET. CINCINNATI:-H. W. DERBY & CO. 1849. [Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by F. J. HUNTINGTO11 the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.] CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER I.-Advantages of the study of Botany, CHAPTER II.-Division of the Sciences-Different parts of the flower-Importance of Botanical arrangement, CHAPTER III.-Practical Botany commenced by the analysis of the Pink-Method of preparing an Herbarium-Botanical excursions-The study of Nature the duty and privilege of intellectual minds, CHAPTER IV.—Introduction to Practical Botany continued— Latin and Greek Numerals-Classes of Linnæus, - 103 |