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"THE FLOBAL YEAR’ has been written by a botanist who, for some years, has been preparing works on natural history which, while losing nothing, in objectivity, were deliberately aimed to win the interest of the inquiring layman by appealing to his love of the æsthetic. In 1944 he published a book called “Flowers in Britain’ which so skilfully combined the scientific and artistic approaches that it became a best-seller. Its success was soon paralleled by a companion volume, ”Trees in Britain", which, the evidence shows, has considerably added to the number of tree-lovers in Britain. Two other works of this type dealing with birds and dogs have since appeared under the editorship of L. J. F. Brimble, and their public reception has been worthy of Brimble's own works.
The Floral Year
By L. J. F. Brimble. Pp. xiv + 622 + 25 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1949.) 30s. net.
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HAWKINS, T. The Floral Year. Nature 164, 165–166 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164165b0
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