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BOTANISTS will welcome a general survey on the plant cell membrane from the pen of the Groningen veteran, Prof. C. van Wisselingh. Inequalities of treatment certainly suggest themselves to the English reader when the chemistry of cellulose is handled without citation of Irvine and its physical structure discussed without reference to W. L. Balls (one recent paper is quoted in the appendix); but there is very real compensation in the individual treatment the problems of the cell wall here receive from the viewpoint of a master of micro-chemical method, who avails himself when necessary of the results of as yet unpublished researches.
Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie.
Herausgegeben von Prof. K. Linsbauer. Allgemeiner Teil: Cytologie. Band III/2: Die Zellmembran. Von Prof. Dr. C. van Wisselingh. Pp. viii + 266. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1924.) 15 gold marks.
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Our Bookshelf. Nature 115, 976 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115976a0
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