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Two new textbooks of General Botany have recently been 

 issued. The one, "Fundamentals of Botany," by C. Stewart 

 Gager, published by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, is 

 a book of G40 pages, which presents the general subject of 

 Botany from a somewhat new and very interesting point of 

 view. 



The other, "A Textbook of Botany for Colleges," by Wm. 

 F. Ganong, published by the MacMillan Company, New York, 

 consists of two parts, the first part alone being issued at the 

 present time. This consists of 390 pages devoted to Morphology 

 and Physiology. The second part which is to deal with a 

 description of the groups of plants will appear later. 



This text also presents the subject of general botany from a 

 distinctive point of view, each section giving the essential 

 morphology followed by the physiology of the tissues and organs 

 involved. 



These two books occupy a field which has received little 

 attention by American botanists, namely, the preparation of 

 suitable texts for the general introductory courses of botany 

 given in the numerous colleges and advanced normal schools. 

 A text presenting a science to a freshman or sophomore college 

 student must evidently present the subject from a different 

 point of view than one prepared for university students. Here- 

 tofore, most of the available English texts were of entirely too 

 advanced a nature to be satisfactorily used in introductory 

 classes. The present texts are a valuable addition to botanical 

 pedagogics, whether one can agree entirely with the method of 

 presentation or not. 



J. H. S. 



Date of Publication, November 20, 1916. 



