No. 1, August, 1920] BOTANICAL EDUCATION 15 



99. Anonymous. [Rev. of: Cork, M. T. Applied economic botany. £61 p., 1',: fig. 

 J. B. Lippincott: Philadelphia, 1919.] Amer. Bot. 25: 110-117. Aug., 1919.— "One of the first 

 books to indicate an approaching change in the subject matter of plant studies." — Reviewer. 



100. Anonymous. [Rev. of: Ellis, G. S. M. Applied botany, viii + 248 p. 67 fig. 2 

 maps. Hodder & Stoughton. "One of the new teaching series of practical text-books."] 

 Jour. Botany 58: 93-94. 1920. 



101. Bancroft, Wilder T. [Rev. of: Buisson, Ferdinand, and Frederick E. Far- 

 rington. French educational ideals of today. 21 X 14 cm., xii + 326 p. Yonkers-on-Hudson: 

 World Book Company, 1919. $2.25.] Jour. Phys. Chem. 24: 80. 1920.— "It is a good book 

 and an interesting one" but the title is misleading for "it does not help the university teacher 

 with his problems and never was intended to." — H. E. Pulling. 



102. Boulger, G. S. [Rev. of: Martin, John N. Botany for agricultural students. 

 x 4- 585 p.] Jour. Botany 58: 29-30. 1920. 



103. Buckman, H. C. The teaching of elementary soils. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 12: 

 55-57. 1920. — The paper discusses the placing of soil science on a sound theoretical pedagogi- 

 cal basis. — F. M. Schertz. 



104. Clute, Willard N. Plant names and their meanings. Amer. Bot. 25: 122-129. 

 1919. — The derivation of scientific and vernacular names of the Ranunculaceae discussed. — 

 W. N. Clute. 



105. Davis, Bradley M. Introductory courses in botany. School Sci. Math. 20: 52- 

 56. Jan., 1920. — Outline No. 7. Structure and function, breeding, economic plants, plant 

 communities. Activities and structure showing adaptation emphasized. Outline No. 8. 

 Parts of seed plants, the cell, functions, life histories, plant families, evolution. Emphasis 

 on philosophical aspects. Outline No. 9. History of botany, soil, root, transpiration, photo- 

 synthesis, respiration, growth, reproduction. Classification. Emphasis on functions. Out- 

 line No. 10. Structure and function of tissues 3 weeks, reproduction 3 weeks, survey of plants: 

 thallophytes 4 weeks, higher plants 3 weeks. [See also next following Entry, 106.] — 

 A. Gundersen. 



10G. Davis, Bradley M. Introductory courses in botany IV. School Sci. Math. 20: 

 352-360. April, 1920.— Outline No. 11. Water relations of plants, nutrition, growth, seeds. 

 Dependent plants. Principal groups of independent plants, industries, plant geography.— 

 No. 12. Seed plant, composite flowers, herbarium of autumn flowers, weeds, pollination, seeds, 

 trees, fall gardens. Algae, bacteria, etc.— No. 13. Plant as a whole. Seeds, fruits, bacteria, 

 yeast, algae and main groups. Last forestry, gardening, orcharding.— No. 14. Nasturtium 

 or Bouncing Bet and composite. Weeds, fruits, bulbs, bacteria, algae, etc., ending with 

 leaves and flowers.— No. 15. Morphology of common plants, physiology, commercial products. 

 Trees, soils, wild flowers, weeds. Decorative planting, plant breeding, seeds, ecology, the 

 cell, algae, fungi, field trips.— No. 16. Algae, bacteria, fungi, gymnosperms, plant physiol- 

 ogy, water relations, soils, monocotyledons and dicotyledons, roots, fertilization, budding, 

 fertilizers, weeds, visits to farms. [See also next preceding Entry, 105.]— A. Gundersen. 



107. Giles, J. K. Corn club lessons. Georgia State Coll. Agric. Bull. 193. 20 p., 3 

 fig. 1920.— Contains ten lessons for the Corn Club boys, as follows: No. 1, History of corn 

 {Zea Mays); No. 2, Fall preparation; No. 3, Preparation of the seed bed; No. 4, Seed corn; 

 No. 5, Planting; No. 6, Cultivation; No. 7, Selection of seed corn; No. 8, Grow legumes in your 

 corn; No. 9, Selecting exhibits— score card; No. 10, Diseases and insect pests.— T. II. 

 McHatton. 



