Botany in Post-War Germany

Abstract

THESE three books are a testimony to the way German botany, and German book-publishing, are recovering from the War. Each book in its own way has something of interest for British botanists. Indeed, these three books are so different from their English counterparts that, in the eyes of students, the corpus of botany in the two countries must seem quite different. This has always been so : one wonders whether any Englishman could have written GoebePs "Organography", or any German could have written Priestley's and Scott's "Introduction to Botany". It has always been so, but it is with something,of a shock that one realizes that the differences have survived the War and are as clear-cut as ever.

Entwicklungs- und bewegungsphysiologie der Pflanze

Von Erwin Büning. Pp. x + 464. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1948.) n.p.

Allgemeine Botanik

Ein Lehrbuch auf vergleichend-biologischer Grundlage. Von Wilhelm Troll. Pp. xv + 749. (Stuttgart : Ferdinand Enke, 1948.) 60 D. marks.

Die Grundlagen des Pflanzenlebens und ihre Bedeutund für den Menschen

Von Heinrich Walter. Pp. 474. (Stuttgart: Eugen Ulmer, 1947.) n.p.