Abstract
THIS volume is primarily a comprehensive treatise on the structure and morphology of the Algae. It contains also useful summaries of recent work on their cytology, physiology, biology and fossil occurrence. In the absence of recent works of this character, it is a distinctly useful volume and may well become a standard work of reference. The morphological chapters are, on the whole, judiciously treated and the illustrations, often original, are good and well chosen. Where so much ground is adequately covered, it is perhaps ungracious to remark that the treatment is in parts rather uneven, notably in the chapters on algal physiology and on pure culture methods. Moreover, the Rhynic fossil algae should certainly be mentioned in any chapter dealing with that subject, as they are the earliest the structure of which is known.
Traité d'algologie: introduction à la biologie et à la systématique des algues.
Prof.
Pierre
Dangeard
Par. (Encyclopédie biologique, Tome 11.) Pp. 441. (Paris: Paul Lechevalier et fils, 1933.) 175 francs.
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Traité d'algologie: introduction à la biologie et à la systématique des algues . Nature 134, 400 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134400c0
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