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WE have so often felt it our duty to expose the incompetence of those who attempt to write elementary text-books of science, that it is a real pleasure to come upon one like Mr. Cooke's “Manual of Botany,”where a man of really accurate scientific knowledge applies himself to writing an elementary work on the rudiments of his science. The special object of the publication, as stated in the preface, is to supply a cheap manual to place in the hands of students in the Botanical Classes established for operatives in connection with the Department of Science and Art; but it may well be used as a first book to prepare for other objects, as, for instance, for the first B.Sc.examination,or that for Women, at the University of London, though it would then have to be supplemen ted by others on the systematic branch of the subject. The descriptions are clear and accurate, and expressed in commendably terse language. It is illustrated by over two hundred woodcuts, some of them of decided merit; and we have reserved our crowning sentence of ommendation till the last—the price is one shilling !
A Manual of Structural Botany for the Use of Classes, Schools, and Private Students.
By M. C. Cooke. New Edition. (London: R. Hardwicke.)
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B., A. A Manual of Structural Botany for the Use of Classes, Schools, and Private Students . Nature 4, 44 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004044a0
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