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THIS little work comprises in book form a series of articlesf contributed to the American Journal of Pharmacy by Mr. P. E. F. Perrélèsr in 1905 and 1906. Written by a pharmaceutical chemist to a pharmaceutical journal, these papers naturally devote attention primarily to the relationship of the London botanic gardens to the art of pharmacy. In tracing the origin of botanic gardens to the private gardens of the herbalists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the author shows that the cultivation of medicinal and officinal plants was the fundamental object kept steadily in view. But recognising that the modern botanic garden, while not departing from this original function, has developed other and equally important features, he has not confined himself exclusively to the pharmaceutical aspect of the London botanic gardens, but has given in a concise but comprehensive manner a review of the work accomplished by them in the domain of pure botany and in the application of the science to technical affairs. The subject has been treated throughout with a breadth of view, an insight and a sense of proportion which have too often been lacking in sketches of this nature, and the absence of which may be held accountable in a great measure for the vague ideas prevalent as to the functions of a botanic garden.
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"London Botanic Gardens." No. 62 of the Publications of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories, Snow Hill, E.C. Pp. 99, with 31 plates.
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London Botanic Gardens 1 . Nature 76, 199–200 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076199a0
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