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THIS volume has been written to serve as an adjunct to the teaching of Botany in girls’ schools, and is the outcome of the author's own experience as a teacher. Miss Aitkin arranges the subject-matter in three parts. In the first are given the general characters of a number of selected types of Flowering plants treated in a manner suitable for young girls beginning the study. In the second part the details of Cryptogamic plants are given, commencing with Protococcus and Yeast, and so on, up to the Fern. In the third part we return to Flowering plants again from a more comprehensive point of view. This last section concludes with a number of chapters on the leading physiological processes of plants. We think the book will be found of service by those for whom it is intended, especially from the fact that Part I. is written, generally speaking, on the lines of the Lower Schedule laid down by the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board. The only criticism we have to make on this section is that perhaps the style is a little wanting in vitality and interest. Part II. is treated along sufficiently familiar lines, but in Part III., by the introduction of physiological work, with careful instructions as to simple experiments which can easily be performed to illustrate class teaching, we think that the author will have opened up fresh fields of interest in botanical study. The volume is profusely illustrated, many of the figures being new.
Elementary Text-book of Botany for the Use of Schools.
By Edith Aitkin. 248 pp. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891.)
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Elementary Text-book of Botany for the Use of Schools. Nature 44, 467 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044467c0
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