Abstract
MR. LELY has rendered a service to African forestry by the preparation and publication of his descriptive account of 128 of the useful trees of Northern Nigeria. This book will be helpful not only to his colleagues but also to forest officers in other African colonies, to which many of the trees described extend their range. The author's method may be commended to the consideration of others who, we hope, will follow his example o as he expresses it, his aim has been to describe and illustrate the material as it appears to be and not only as it actually is from the scientific point of view, avoiding botanical terms except where they have no alternative. Technical descriptions can always be provided by the compiler of a flora, working at home, but information such as that supplied by the author of the work under review can only be given by ‘the man in the field.’
The Useful Trees of Northern Nigeria.
By H. V. Lely. Pp. xii + 128 + 120 plates. (London: The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1925.) 10s. net.
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DAVY, J. The Useful Trees of Northern Nigeria . Nature 118, 656 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118656a0
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