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A SKETCH of the progress of hepaticology occupies the first thirty-six pages; a knowledge of early authors is considered essential in questions of nomenclature and in dealing with types of genera; Evans, Howe, Lindberg, Schiffner and Spruce are authors favourably mentioned, but Stephani's “Species Hepaticarum“is very frankly criticised; its errors and other faults are considered to be so grave, that setting it aside as “opus excludendum“is discussed; in view however of its wide acceptance, that course is inexpedient and revision is recommended. Improved methods, geographical, cyto-logical, genetical, experimental morphological, etc., are urged in the study of liverworts; the weakness of much recent bryological literature is referred to. Revision is the most urgent need of to-day; progress will largely depend on the study of the smaller groups, which are insufficiently understood.
Annales Bryologici: a Year-Book devoted to the Study of Mosses and Hepatics.
Edited by Fr. Verdoorn. Supplementary Vol. 4: Studien über Asiatische Jubuleae (de Frullaniaceis 15–17) mit einer Einleitung: Bryologie und Hepaticologie, ihre Methodik und Zukunft. Von Fr. Verdoorn. Pp. viii + 231. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1934.) 6 guilders.
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Annales Bryologici: a Year-Book devoted to the Study of Mosses and Hepatics . Nature 135, 288 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135288b0
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