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THIS is one of those elaborate German works which seem as if they were intended completely to exhaust the subject of which they treat. Every substance of economical or technical importance which is obtained from the vegetable kingdom is treated of in detail from the point of view of its practical utility rather than its physiological history; its chemical, mechanical, and microscopical properties, the mode of its preparation or manufacture, and its utility in the arts or commerce, are described. The book is, in fact, a repertorium of technical botany.
Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches: Versuch einer technischen Rohstofflehre des Pflanzenreiches.
Von Dr. Julius Wiesner. (Leipzig: Engelmann, 1873. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches: Versuch einer technischen Rohstofflehre des Pflanzenreiches . Nature 9, 342 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009342c0
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