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DIFFERENT opinions may be held as to what constitutes an elementary science text-book dealing with first principles, and we are inclined to think that Mr. Davis has given the work before us too modest a title. This little book, of 160 pages, contains enough facts and “hard words” to fill a small Encyclopædia, although “no previous knowledge is assumed”; and we fear that any beginner who limited his studies to this work would run more danger of developing into a kind of living abridged botanical dictionary than of mastering the first principles of the science.
The Flowering Plant: as illustrating the First Principles of Botany.
By J. R. Ainsworth Davis (London: Charles Griffin and Co., 1890.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 42, 4 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042004a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/042004a0