Abstract
TO write a text-book of botany is nowadays no easy task. The subject itself has grown in many directions, and it demands some knowledge of all the main branches of science as a preliminary to tackling even the simpler problems with which it confronts the student. A book intended for use in junior classes in a university must obviously then be the outcome of careful sifting and artistic synthesis of raw material if it is to be of any real value, and especially is this true when the demands of the student of medicine have to be satisfied. Botany, properly presented, forms perhaps the best introduction to biology for the purpose of the medical student, but how often when he has asked for bread has he been put off with unprofitable and altogether unattractive stones !
Elements of Plant Biology.
By A. G. Tansley. Pp. 410. (London: G. Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1922.) 10s. 6d. net.
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F., J. Elements of Plant Biology. Nature 112, 273–274 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112273a0
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