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The Physiology of Plants, a Treatise upon the Metabolism and Sources of Energy in Plants Vorlesungen über Pflanzenphysiologie

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PROF. PFEFFER is to be congratulated on the completion of his great task—the re-writing, in the form of a second edition, of his well known “Pflanzenphysiologie.” The present edition, of which the first instalment appeared in 1897, consists of what are practically three volumes containing some 1600 pages. Of these, the two first volumes are before us in an English translation.

The Physiology of Plants, a Treatise upon the Metabolism and Sources of Energy in Plants.

Prof. W. Pfeffer. Second fully revised edition. Translated and edited by Dr. Alfred J. Ewart. Vols. i. (pp. xii + 632) and ii. (pp. viii + 296). (Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1900 and 1903.)

Vorlesungen über Pflanzenphysiologie.

Prof. Ludwig Jost. Pp. xiii + 695; with 172 illustrations. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1904.) Price 13 marks.

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D., F. The Physiology of Plants, a Treatise upon the Metabolism and Sources of Energy in Plants Vorlesungen über Pflanzenphysiologie . Nature 70, 242–243 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070242a0

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