An Advanced Text-Book of Botany

Abstract

THERE are probably few books that are much harder to write than those which endeavour to deal, within a limited space, and from the point of view of the needs of the advanced student, with the whole range of any extensive branch of science. And indeed it is perhaps doubtful whether the time has not gone by when such works can hope to lay claims to much educational utility. Certainly this is the case as regards botany, which now covers so wide an area of knowledge that a bulky volume would be required merely to indicate in outline the more salient facts and their general connections and bearings.

A University Text-book of Botany.

By Douglas Houghton Campbell Pp. xv + 579. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.) Price 17s. net.