Plant and Animal Improvement: a Textbook for Students of Agriculture

Abstract

THIS modest volume stands distinct among a rather considerable number of books on genetics and breeding which the past few years have brought us. Its aim is “To give the student an intelligent view of the processes involved in the improvement of plants and animals.” A simple primer, with no pretensions to being anything else, in letter and in spirit a ‘practical man's’ book, it seeks not to prove but to relate. Simple language, with plenty of attractive illustrations and clear diagrams, will undoubtedly appeal to the agricultural reader who interests himself in science solely because it may forward his practice.

Plant and Animal Improvement: a Textbook for Students of Agriculture.

By Prof. Elmer Roberts, in consultation with Prof. Eugene Davenport. Pp. xii + 174 + 5 plates. (Boston, New York and London: Ginn and Co., 1925.) 6s. net.