Practical Plant Biology: A Course of Elementary Lectures on the General Morphology and Physiology of Plants

Abstract

A TEXT-BOOK by such an experienced teacher as Prof. H. H. Dixon -is very welcome. To judge from the introduction, this book represents in condensed form the series of lectures which the author has found most suitable for the introduction of his subject to a class in which medical students predominate. At the end of each lecture brief notes are added as to the scope of the practical work to be carried out in conjunction with the course. Each lecture occupies on the average about eight pages, and in the thirty lectures a wide series of types are covered, from unicellular forms to the flowering plant. Considerable physiological work is included, and the subjects of nuclear division, heredity, and evolution occupy the last three lectures. The treatment is therefore of necessity much condensed, and an elementary student would find it difficult to use the book except under guidance.

Practical Plant Biology: A Course of Elementary Lectures on the General Morphology and Physiology of Plants.

By Prof. H. H. Dixon. Pp. xi + 291. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922.) 6s.