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THE publication by the Slovak Academy of Arts and Science of the first modern botany in the vernacular is a landimark in the development of science in the eastern half of Czechoslovakia. In Bohemia, Presl's “Rostlinopis’ appeared more than a hundred years ago, and was followed at intervals with other noteworthy Czech botanical works that coulef always stand comparison with similar books of other countries. But in Slovakia science has long been neglected. Its only botanist of international renown was J. L. Holuby (1836–1923), and though his voluminous writings covered a span of seven decades, he is known outside Slovakia only by his contributions in German, especially his ”Flora of Trenč ìn County", which showed how rich in plant treasures this part of Central Europe is.
Všeobecná Botanika
(General Botany.) By Prof. B. Němec and Dr. L. Pastýrik. Pp. viii + 456. (Bratislava: Academia Scientiarum et Artium Slovaca., 1948.) 360 crowns, or 36s.
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D., J. Všeobecná Botanika. Nature 164, 87 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164087a0
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