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PROF. MOLISCH'S book is a record of a visit to India in the winter of 1928–29. The visit was the outcome of an invitation from Sir Jagadis Bose to the Austrian plant physiologist that he should make his home at the Bose Institute in Calcutta, and that whilst studying the methods and ideals of this establishment, he should give occasional lectures to the workers on matters in his own field, and also carry out any research he desired. During the course of the visit, Prof. Molisch had full opportunity of seeing India, observing the customs of its peoples, its flora and botanic gardens. His various experiences are set down in full, even with intimate detail, the result being rather heterogeneous. Nevertheless, the movement, beauty, and sunshine of India continually find their way into the pages of a book generally loosely knit and lacking in construction. The photographic illustrations (more than a hundred in number), which deal with all sorts of subjects, are a great feature? they are well selected and well reproduced, largely atoning for the author's lack of literary style. Like many travellers, Prof. Molisch finds it easier to take good landscapes, crowd pictures, and portrait studies of individuals than to produce good habit pictures of plants.
Als Naturforscher in Indien.
Prof. Dr. Hans Molisch. Pp. xii + 276. (Jena: Gustav Fisher, 1930.) 13 gold marks.
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O., F. [Our Bookshelf]. Nature 127, 551 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127551a0
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