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PROF. Němec, the distinguished Czechoslovak plant physiologist, has written an absorbing survey of the plant kingdom under the title “The Soul of Plants”. Writing for men of science in general, he describes plant-life, the evolution of higher forms, the struggle for existence and the purposefulness of their life-cycles. There is a particularly striking chapter, ”Death rules the Living”, which gives a vivid idea of the contributory causes for the 600,000 plant species and of the genetics of the ‘miracle of inheritance’, the sources of variation, genes and the ways in which plant posterity is ensured.
Duše Rostlin (The Soul of Plants)
By Prof. B. Němec. Pp. 234 + 16 plates. (Prague: Nakladalelství Praské Akciové Tiskárny, 1937.) 29 crowns.
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Duše Rostlin (The Soul of Plants). Nature 140, 1081 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401081c0
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