(1) A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities (2) Sub-alpine Plants: (3) Botany: (4) Allgemeine Botanik

Abstract

(1) THE second volume of the Chicago text-1. book of botany, which deals with ecology, is a very clear exposition of plant-structures in relation to their environment. It is a wide subject of which to treat, and one is immediately struck with the way in which the authors have managed to deal with it in the comparatively limited space of 480 pages, including numerous illustrations. That this treatment has been eminently successful:s due to a directness of expression combined with a simplicity of presentation. The chapters are concise but lucid, and the arrangement of the subject-matter is very good.

(1) A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities.

By Members of the Botanical Staff of the University of Chicago—Drs. J. M. Coulter C. R. Barnes H. C. Cowles. Vol. ii., “Ecology.” Pp. x + 485–964 + a–q. (New York: American Book Co., n.d.)

(2) Sub-alpine Plants:

or Flowers of the Swiss Woods and Meadows. By H. Stuart Thompson. Pp. xv + 325, and 33 coloured plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(3) Botany:

Chapters on the Study of Plants. By G. S. Boulger. Pp. viii + 119; illustrated. (Halifax: Milner and Co., n.d.) Price 1s. net. (Twentieth Century Science Series.)

(4) Allgemeine Botanik.

By Prof. A. Nathansohn. Pp. viii + 471. (Leipzig: Quelle and Meyer, 1912.) Price 10 marks.