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DURING the years 1906–1913, Prof. Houard, professor of botany in the University of Strasbourg, placed all cecidologists deeply in his debt by the issue of his three fine volumes on “Les Zoocecidies des plantes d'Europe et du bassin de la Mediterranee.” He has now covered Africa, Asia, and Australasia. Only America remains, and it is to be hoped that Prof. Houard will continue his indefatigable labours and encompass the zoocecidology of the globe. The present work is based essentially on the same plan as its predecessor: a short introduction and table of abbreviations, and then a descriptive catalogue of the animal galls of plants, the latter arranged systematically according to Engler and Prantl's “Pflanzenfamilien.” This is followed by a bibliographical index of more than seven hundred memoirs of which Prof. Houard himself may be justly proud to claim sixty-five items; by zoological and alphabetical tables of the animal organisms producing galls on plants, an index of plant hosts, and a general index. The volumes are illustrated by a portrait frontispiece and nearly two thousand figures, which although small are quite adequate.
Les Zoocécidies des plantes d'Afrique, d'Asie, et d'Océanie.
Par Prof. C. Houard. Tome 1: Cryptogames, Gymnospermes, Monocotylédones, Dicotylédones (1re partie), Nos. 1 à 1806. Pp. 496. Tome 2: Dicotylédones (2e partie), Index bibliographique, Nos. 1807 à 3293. Pp. 497–1056. (Paris: J. Hermann, 1922–1923.) 2 vols. 100 francs.
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Les Zoocécidies des plantes d'Afrique, d'Asie, et d'Océanie. Nature 112, 433 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112433a0
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