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THE increasing recognition of the significance Jof the fungi in agriculture and industry makes the publication of a treatise on this group of plants an event of notable importance. This is the more manifest when it is realised that, since the translation of De Bary's great work on the fungi in 1886, there has appeared no book in English which covers the subject as does the present volume, or which has been suitable as a mycological text-book for advanced students of botany. Further, during this period only one book—Gaumann's “Vergleichende Morphologie der Pilze,” published in 1926—has appeared on the continent of Europe. The present volume by Prof. Gwynne-Vaughan and Mr. Barnes partially occupies, therefore, a niche which has been empty for some considerable time.
The Structure and Development of the Fungi.
By Dame H. C. I. Gwynne-Vaughan B. Barnes. Pp. xvi + 384. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1927.) 15s. net.
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B., W. Academic Mycology. Nature 121, 742 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121742a0
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