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108. Prain, David, and others. Report of the Committee on the Royal Botanic Society. 

 Royal Bot. Soc. London Quarterly Summary and Meteorological Readings 2: 4-8. Oct., 1919. 

 — The committee was appointed by Lord Ernie to inquire and report what steps should be 

 taken to render the work of the Royal Botanical Society of London as useful as possible from 

 the scientific and educational point of view. The committee recommends the establishment 

 of 1. A school of economic botany; 2. A research institute with special reference to plant 

 physiology; 3. A center for teaching horticulture; 4. Courses in school gardening especially 

 for teachers. The report continues with suggestions for buildings and equipment to cost 

 about £5,500 and the organization of a staff involving an annual budget of £3,000- £3,500 

 (= pre-war, say £2 ,000- £2,250). It is also suggested that the new institute should cooperate 

 with local colleges and botany schools by supplying material for teaching and research. [See 

 also abst. from London Times, in Science 51 : 58. 1920.] — C. S. Gager. 



109. Randall, J. L. Gardening as a part of city education. Xat. Study Rev. 16:95-97. 

 1920. — There is an imperative demand for a new education. The school directed home garden 

 is the most economic form of gardening for small cities and the suburbs of larger cities. In 

 congested parts of large cities school or vacant lot gardens must be substituted. Teachers 

 may receive information from United States School Garden Army, Bureau of Education, 

 Washington, D. C. — A. Gundersen. 



110. Shaw, Ellen Eddy. Efficiency aids to garden work. Nat. Study Rev. 16: 89-94. 

 1920. — Suggestions to garden teachers in children's work on ways of preparing children for 

 their outdoor work, and on methods of planning and planting a garden, where children have 

 individual plots. The use of the older boys and girls as junior assistant teachers is recom- 

 mended. Hints for registration of children and keeping of garden crop records. — A. G under- 

 sell. 



111. Smith, Arthur. A lesson on soil formation and its bacteria. Gard. Chron. Amer. 

 24:109-410. 1920. 



112. Smith, R. S. Introductory courses in soils. Jour. Amer. Soc. Agron. 12: 5S-60. 

 1920. — The paper states in broad terms a tentative outline of the general purpose to be at- 

 tained by an introductory soils course. — F. M. Schertz. 



113. Stevens, F. L. Practical botany. [Rev. of: (1) Cook, M. T. Applied economic 

 botany. 261 p., 142 fig. J. B. Lippincott: Philadelphia, 1919 (see Bot. Absts. 3, Entry 491); 

 (2) Martin, J. N. Botany for agricultural students. SS5 p., 488 fig. John Wiley and Sons: 

 New York, 1919 (see Bot. Absts. 3, Entry 2165).] Bot. Gaz. 63: 307-308. 1919.— Cook's work 

 is "written in attractive style, and the material is well-selected, and is a commendable effort 

 to differentiate secondary-school botany from university botany. The numerous half-tones 

 are of unusually good quality." In Martin's work "the presentation is botanical rather than 

 agricultural. The line drawings are not as well done or as accurate as they should be, and the 

 illustrations in general are in contrast with the excellent presswork and the easy and pleasing 

 style of presentation." — //. C. Cowles. 



114. Trelease, Sam F. Laboratory exercises in agricultural botany. College Cooper- 

 ative Co., Inc.: College of Agriculture, Los Bafios, P. I. April, 1919. — Contains 109 pages 

 covering directions for laboratory study for agricultural students as follows: Part I. Physio- 

 logical Plant Anatomy, including general characteristics of the plant, seed, plant cell, root, 

 stem, leaf, flower, fruit; Part II. Systematic Botany, including I. Primitive organisms 

 (Bacteria, Cyanophyceae, Flagellaia, Myxomycetes, Diatomeae), II. Plants (Algae, Fungi, 

 Dryophyla, Spermatophyta) . The guide has been prepared for use with Copeland's "The 

 first year of Botany," a multigraphed text in use at the College of Agriculture, Los Banos. — 

 C. S. Gager. 



