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THE author indicates that her book is primarily intended for students of botany, and that it should be a guide to practical work. It is stated that the volume is planned to supplement the knowledge of plant products which students obtain in their study of organic chemistry and of plant physiology. The introduction is followed by eight chapters, each giving a brief survey of some portion of the chemistry of plant life—e.g. the colloidal state (chap, ii.), carbon assimilation (chap, iv.), glucosides and glucoside-splitting enzymes (chap. ix.). The general matter of the chapters is followed by, or interspersed with, data upon which experimental work can be carried out to illustrate the points dealt with in the respective chapters. A list of references to original literature is given at the end of each chapter, and cross-references, are frequently employed. As to errors, it is rather surprising that those in the structural formulæ for α- and β-glucose on p. 48 (where the formulæ are used to illustrate a statement concerning the two forms) should have been overlooked.
Practical Plant Biochemistry.
By Muriel Wheldale Onslow. Pp. vii + 178. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1920.) Price 15s. net.
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E., A. Practical Plant Biochemistry . Nature 106, 176 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106176a0
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