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DR. CURTIS has added another to the existing long list of intermediate botanical text-books. His book is readable, and on the whole a fairly good one, and the number of new illustrations it contains at once impress the reader in its favour. Opening with a general account of anatomy, he devotes the second chapter to physiology. But the great bulk of the book (p. 87–340) is given up to systematic and morphological matters. A very short sketch of palæobotany, together with an index, conclude the work. The general treatment is based on the type system, and Dr. Curtis has done well in showing how this much abused method lends itself in reality very well to a connected exposition of the taxonomic parts of botany. Unfortunately, perhaps inevitably, the text is rather scrappy in many places, although this is partly atoned for by the fulness of the many laboratory exercises which are distributed through the book.
A Text-book of General Botany.
By Carlton C. Curtis, Tutor in Botany in Columbia University. Pp. viii + 359. (New York, London, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897.)
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A Text-book of General Botany. Nature 59, 28 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059028b0
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