(1) The Study of Plants: an Introduction to Botany and Plant Ecology (2) A School Flora for the Use of Elementary Botanical Classes (3) The Surrey Hills (4) In Pastures Green (5) How to Lay Out Suburban Home Grounds

Abstract

(1)THE course of work in elementary botany set forth in this book is such as to fulfil admirably the author's main object: the establishment of the fundamental principles of plant physiology; while the prominence given to plant ecology and the admirable manner in which this aspect of the subject is treated are just what one would expect from a writer who has contributed so materially to the progress of this branch of botany. Form and structure, however, are by no means neglected in Dr. Woodhead's well-planned course, but merely made subservient to physiology and ecology; morphological facts are treated in relation to function and habitat, while the necessary morphological data are introduced where required in the discussion of the various types of vegetation. The book is liberally illustrated, and the figures are mostly new and all extremely good, a large proportion being photographs. It would be very difficult to find a better introduction to the study of plant ecology than is given in the section, extending to about ninety pages, with fifty illustrations of which many are very fine photographs of vegetation, devoted to this subject. We could wish that c}imatic factors had been somewhat more fully dealt with, and it seems rather inadvisable at present to introduce any terms for vegetation units beyond the non-committal “plant community” in a book intended for young students. It is safe to predict that Dr. Woodhead's book will be widely adopted for class use, and it is to be hoped that it will come into the hands of every teacher of botany.

(1) The Study of Plants: an Introduction to Botany and Plant Ecology.

By Dr. T. W. Woodhead. Pp. 440. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1915.) Price 5s. 6d.

(2) A School Flora for the Use of Elementary Botanical Classes.

By Dr. W. M. Watts. New edition. Pp. viii + 208. (London: Long mans, Green and Co., 1915.) Price 3s. 6d.

(3) The Surrey Hills.

By F. E. Green. Pp. x + 252. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1915.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(4) In Pastures Green.

By P. McArthur. Pp. xi + 364. (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1915.) Price 55. net.

(5) How to Lay Out Suburban Home Grounds.

By H. J. Kellaway. Second edition. Pp. x + 134. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1915.) Price 8s. 6d. net.