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THIS book is intended, or at least so we gather from the preface, to provide a year's work in an advanced school class. Much of the matter is to be commended, and some of the new figures are admirable. From this side the Atlantic one can only regard with envy the amount of energy expendable in American schools if a work of this proportion and scope is really suited to their possible requirements; for the book covers a wide range of subjects, and will make no small demands on the time of the student who aims at mastering its contents. The author clearly intends that the work shall be grappled with thoroughly, and from the concrete and practical side. He gives directions for laboratory work, and suggests problems to be solved by observation and experiment. These are incorporated in the text, as appendices to the chapters, after the prevailing fashion in modern American text-books. It may, perhaps, be questioned whether the book might not be improved by the separation of the purely systematic portion into a volume by itself.
Foundations of Botany.
By Joseph Y. Bergen Pp. x + 257. (Boston, U.S.A.: Ginn and Co., 1901.)
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Foundations of Botany . Nature 65, 4 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065004b0
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