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THE veteran author of this well-known book must be warmly congratulated on the publication of its fourth edition. He has been fortunate in the selection of those who have aided him, Prof. J. M. F. Drummond and Dr. G. Bond in the third edition, and now Prof. C. W. Wardlaw in the present one. When the book first appeared in 1919, Prof. Bower was one of the few persons competent in Great Britain to write, single-handed, a general treatise on botany at the university level of instruction ; but the time is rapidly approaching when the single author must give place to a team of collaborators. This difficulty has been forestalled by Prof. Bower in his admirable choice of assistants, and fortunately the homogeneity of treatment characteristic of the first edition has been maintained.
Botany of the Living Plant
By Prof. F. O. Bower. Fourth edition. Pp. xii + 700. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1947.) 36s. net.
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BROOKS, F. Botany of the Living Plant. Nature 161, 153 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161153a0
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