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Following an introduction devoted to a definition of botany and its subdivisions, the subject is treated in three parts, viz., 1, the structure and physiology of plants, 2, The morphology, evolution and classification of plants, and 3, Ecology and economic botany. Part 2 is Dr. Davis’ portion of the work.
“While the book as a whole is too heavy for the average high-school work, it will be almost indispensable as a reference work because of its large amount of information, its abundant illustrations, and its helpful suggestions as to the significance of structures and their relationship to one another.”
| + + | Bot. Gaz. 43: 64. Ja. ’07. 720w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 380. N. 1, ’06. 440w. |
“The book can be confidently recommended to students and teachers, and the latter will find the arrangement well worthy of consideration.”
| + | Nature. 76: 124. Je. 6, ’07. 200w. |
“The whole revision has been toward greater precision and succinctness of statement, and has resulted in a more scholarly work.” I. N. Mitchell.
| + + | School R. 15: 305. Ap. ’07. 850w. |
“To ‘touch the high points’ and yet to keep up the connection between them is the difficult task of the writer of an elementary text-book. In some portions of the book before us this has been accomplished, while in others a good deal of matter has been admitted which might well have been left out.” Charles E. Bessey.