| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 30w. |
“It all looks so simple and easy that we cannot help asking why no one ever did it before; but the very simplicity is the sign of the master mind.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 531. Ap. 27, ’07. 110w. |
Druce, George C. Dillenian herbaria: an account of the Dillenius collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, together with a biographical sketch of Dillenius, selections from his correspondence, notes, etc.; ed., with introd. by S. H. Vines. *$4.15. Oxford.
“Mr. Druce has drawn up this account of the collections left by Dillenius, and has critically examined the specimens preserved as vouchers, illuminating many doubtful passages in the third edition of Ray’s ‘Synopsis,’ and practically disposing of the dubious entries which have troubled many subsequent botanists. For studies of this character the facilities offered at the Botanic garden, Oxford, are extremely good, and only to be excelled by the Sloane volumes in the department of botany, Cromwell road.... The introduction by Prof. Vines is an appreciative essay on the position of Dillenius as regards his contemporaries; then, with a single page of preface, Mr. Druce gives a life of Dillenius and bibliography.”
“The technical account of these three herbaria would not in itself be interesting to the general reader, were it not for the sundry introductory notes and fragments of letters. But these fragments have the charm which clings to a great part of eighteenth-century science, and carry one back to the days when naturalists did not confine themselves to single and restricted fields.”
| + | Nation. 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 700w. |
“This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of the botanic preeminence of Oxford in the first half of the eighteenth century.” B. D. J.
| + | Nature. 76: 289. Jl. 25, ’07. 690w. |