Biology

Abstract

THE principal distinctive feature of this work is its breadth of outlook. While books on biochemical method normally give in detail the methods required for the estimation of particular substances in a plant tissue, this, while not neglecting such details, is principally concerned with the general analysis of a plant tissue or a substance, and more particularly with the principles governing the choice of methods and the principles involved in their application. Even a person moderately well acquainted with biochemistry will receive something of a shock on realising from a book of this type the extraordinary range of methods now available as aids in analysis of one form or another. Ultra-filtration and ultra-microscopy may give valuable information; fluorescence and photochemistry are also called upon for assistance and there are useful chapters on micro-methods and histological chemical methods which should appeal especially to the general biologist.

Handbuch der Pflanzenanalyse.

Herausgegeben von G. Klein. Band 1: Allgemeine Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse. Bearbeitet von R. Brieger, F. Feigl, P. Hirsch, E. Keyssner, G. Klein, H. Kleinmann, G. Kögel, H. Lieb, H. Linser, J. Matula, L. Michælis, C. Weygand. Pp. xii + 627. (Wien und Berlin: Julius Springer, 1931.) 69 gold marks.