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A HANDBOOK on the biology of fruits and seeds has long been needed. This work only partly supplies the need. While the morphological aspects are adequately dealt with, considering the size of the book, the biological data given are less satisfactory. This is largely due to the relative neglect of field investigation and experiment by the majority of those who have studied fruits and seeds. Many biologists cannot feel satisfied that opinions stated as a result of herbarium and museum studies are trustworthy accounts of what actually happens in Nature. It is certainly risky to conclude that morphological peculiarities function for wide dispersal in the absence of observational and experimental facts, and deductions from analogical resemblances may be entirely misleading.
Biologie der Früchte und Samen (Karpobiologie).
Von Prof. Dr. E. Ulbrich. (Biologische Studienbücher, herausgegeben von Walther Schoenichen, Band 6.) Pp. viii + 230. (Berlin; Julius Springer, 1928.) 12 gold marks.
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Biologie der Früchte und Samen (Karpobiologie) . Nature 122, 437 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122437c0
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