Abstract
IT is very seldom that we have come across an elementary book on botany which has impressed us so favourably as the one now under review. It is intended primarily for school use, but the admirable method which is maintained throughout its pages ought to be practised in all grades of class work. A general account is given of the simple morphological and physiological phenomena of plant-life, and the student is encouraged to put the knowledge thus acquired in each section to a practical test. A selected object or experiment is indicated to him, and he is shown how to put his own questions. He is not, however, told the answer—that he has to find out for himself as the result of independent observation.
Elements of Botany.
By J. Y. Bergen, Instructor in Biology, English High School, Boston. Pp. vi + 275 + 57. (Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Co., 1896.)
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Elements of Botany. Nature 53, 460 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053460a0
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