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THE author points out that during the past ten A years immense strides have been made in microscopical technique and in our knowledge of life-histories, and the present volume is an attempt to sift the mass of information in the literature and to correlate it so as to be of optimum service to laboratory workers. The book is not intended to be an encyclopædia of methods, but succeeds in giving in a readable form full details of a range of procedures which have been selected as the more reliable and generally useful, as the result of tests carried out in the Stanford laboratories. One of the marked features of modern methods is the tendency to use, wherever possible, whole-mount preparations, maceration and smear methods, and thicker in preference to thinner sections; and such points as these receive full attention. Adequate details are given for the making up of the stains recommended, and many useful hints are included as to the optimum thickness of section, time of day for collecting material for special purposes, etc., which may save much time in preliminary tests. Though the author deals to some extent with reagents of American origin, this is not likely to interfere appreciably with the value of the book to users in Great Britain.
Plant Microtechnique
By Donald Alexander Johansen. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Botanical Sciences.) Pp. xi + 523. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 30s.
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Plant Microtechnique. Nature 147, 222 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147222b0
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