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IN botanical laboratories each individual worker tends to introduce modifications of methods of fixation, staining, etc., according to the particular requirements of his material and investigation ; the result of this is that descriptions of methods become so multiplied as to be very confusing to an occasional worker in that branch of the subject, and much time may be wasted in looking up and deciding between the many possible methods of carrying out any one procedure. In course of time most workers tend to collect their own card index of selected methods and the authors state that this book is in fact their card index put into a more convenient form. For specialized methods the index will still be required, but in “Plant Science Formulæ”may be found the receipts, in the generally accepted form, of the commonly used fixatives, stains, culture media, etc., given in the simplest form and with the minimum of inessential detail. It is inevitable in such a book that any specialist worker is liable to find certain methods omitted or differing from those he is accustomed to use, and for this reason blank pages are inserted at the end of each section for additions.
Plant Science Formulæ
A Reference Book for Plant Science Laboratories (including Bacteriology). By Prof. R. C. McLean and Dr. W. R. Ivimey Cook. Pp. vii + 203. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1941.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Plant Science Formulæ. Nature 149, 150 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149150a0
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