Abstract
MR. GRANT ALLEN tells the story of plants in a readable and very inaccurate manner. The keynote to his work is struck in his preface, in which he informs his reader that he has “wasted comparatively little space on mere structural detail,” and, later on, that he makes “trivial sacrifices of formal accuracy” in order to expound general biological relationships. It is true that he apologises for these amiable little weaknesses, but adds, in the same breath, that he lays before his “untechnical readers all the latest results of the most advanced botanical research.” It is impossible to avoid giving some samples of these “latest results.”
The Story of the Plants.
By Grant Allen. (London: George Newnes, Limited, 1895.)
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The Story of the Plants. Nature 52, 364–365 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052364a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/052364a0
