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PROF. GREEN has set himself a difficult task in attempting to put new wine into old bottles. Bentley's book, on which the present work is based, was admirable in its time, but to-day it strikes one as being somewhat inflexible both in style and ideas. It is true that in the volume before us there is a great deal of very useful information, which is put better and more clearly than elsewhere; in fact some of the subjects are so well treated, that we cannot help regretting that Prof. Green did not see his way to give us an altogether original work.
A Manual of Botany.
By Prof. J. Reynolds Green Vol. I. Morphology and Anatomy. Pp. x + 398. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1895.)
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A Manual of Botany. Nature 53, 219 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053219b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053219b0