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PROF. JOST's lectures appeared in German in 1904, and were soon appreciatively reviewed in the columns of NATURE. It was twenty years since a book had appeared so admirably adapted for the use of students of the physiology of plants, and an English translation was eagerly awaited by teachers of the subject. Now that it is to hand we find that it contains several hundred mistranslations; quotation of a short series of these will show how greatly the English rendering lacks accuracy. On p. 44, and elsewhere, “succulent plants” become “oily plants.” On p. 114, by mistranslation, all Brown and Morris's work on the carbohydrates of foliage leaves is transferred to another investigator.
Lectures on Plant Physiology.
By Prof. Ludwig Jost. Authorised English translation by Prof. Harvey Gibson. Pp. xiv + 564; illustrated. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) Price 21s; net.
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B., F. Lectures on Plant Physiology . Nature 77, 97–98 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077097a0
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