Abstract
A GOOD deal of discussion has recently taken place among botanists on. the subject of the reconstruction of elementary botanical teaching, and one of the main contentions of the originators of the discussion was that in order to secure improvement “comparative morphology should be reduced to a subordinate position.” It has further been alleged that in modern botanical teaching the teacher has failed to present the plant as a living organism, thereby implying that morphology has been divorced from physiology. Prof. F. O. Bower has already expressed himself forcibly and with sound sense upon the question in the pages of the New Phytologist (vol. xvii., Nos. 5 and 6, p. 105), and has aptly summarised his views with the adage, “Physician, heal thyself.”
Botany of the Living Plant.
By Prof. F. O. Bower. Pp. x + 580. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 25s. net.
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H., A. Botany of the Living Plant . Nature 104, 274–275 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104274a0
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