Organographie der Pflanzen

Abstract

IT is difficult to realise that this book is the work of the same author who wrote the now classical text-book of morphology. Later publications of Dr. Goebel's have been largely occupied with biological subjects, and he appears in the book before us to have abandoned the morphologist's standpoint, and assumed a physiological or, perhaps more correctly, a biological position. In making this change he admits that phyllogenetic speculations are, without doubt, more attractive than the investigation of the illusive causes, external or internal, which determine modifications of form; yet for him the recognition of the factors which bring about the unsymmetrical form of a leaf is of more importance than the construction of insubstantial theories of phyllogenetic development.

Organographie der Pflanzen.

By Dr. K. Goebel. Part i. With 130 figures in the text. Pp. ix + 232. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1898.)