L'Evolution des Plantes

Abstract

NOËL BERNARD was elected professor of botany at Poitiers in 1908 and died, at the age of thirty-six, in 1911. Prof. Costantin, in a preface written at the request of Madame Bernard, gives an interesting account of the life and work of his old pupil. Bernard was a man of wide culture and considerable ability, who devoted most of his scientific life to the experimental investigation of the germination of orchids, with special reference to their symbiotic association with fungi. The concluding chapter of this posthumous volume is a reprint of the introduction to his important paper on “L'Evolution dans la symbiose” published in the Annales des sciences naturelles in 1909.

L'Evolution des Plantes.

Par Prof. N. Bernard. Préface de J. Costantin. Pp. xxxii + 314. (Paris: Librarrie Félix Alcan, 1916.) Price 4.55 francs.