Abstract
THIS book is ostensibly written to enable students to obtain a knowledge of botany without receiving personal supervision and instruction. Thus the author sets before himself an onerous task the difficulties of which he has quite failed to realise. Indeed, the book displays throughout the crudest knowledge of the subject, and this is set forth in a loose and disjointed fashion without any particular arrangement or continuity of argument. Even where a good exercise is given, or an instructive experiment described, as at p. 92, the full value is lost through inadequate explanation or incomplete description. The aim of the writer to provide practical scientific knowledge in a logical manner has certainly not been attained; rather it is to be feared that the student who should work through the book will even then find that he does not know much, and most assuredly he will not know accurately.
The Self-Educator in Botany.
By R. S. Wishart Pp. xiv + 226. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900.) Price 2s. 6d.
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The Self-Educator in Botany . Nature 65, 126 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065126c0
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