70 BOTANICAL EDUCATION [Bot. Absts., Vol. VI, 



496. Briquet, J. Rapport sur Tactivite au Conservatoire et au Jardin Botanique de Geneve 

 pendant les annees 1916, 1917, et 1918. [Report on the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of 

 Geneva for 1916, 1917 and 1918.] Ann. Conservatoire et Jard. Bot. Geneve 20: 479-509. 1919. 

 — The report gives a classified account of the collections received at the Delessert Herbarium 

 and a list of the publications based on the collections at the Herbarium. There are also 

 notes on the "Iconothc'que" or collection of portraits, the botanical museum, and the botani- 

 cal garden. — A. S. Hitchcock. 



497. Brown, J. G. A new text book of botany. [Rev. of : Martin, J. N. Botany for agri- 

 cultural students. John Wiley and Sons: New York, 1919.] Plant World 22: 217. 1919. 



498. C., C. A. [Rev. of: anonymous. Plan of Tongariro National Park, [2 miles = 1 in.] 

 Lands and Survey Dept., Wellington, New Zealand, 1917.] New Zealand Jour. Sci. Tech. 1: 

 191. May, 1918. 



499. Checkley, George. The formation of a students' botanical garden. Pharm. Jour. 

 104: 44. 1920.— See Bot. Absts. 6, Entry 1298. 



500. Densmore, Hiram D. General botany for universities and colleges, xii -j- 469 p., 

 289 fig. Ginn & Co. : Boston, 1920. — Part I, Biology of the higher seed plants, contains eleven 

 chapters, arranged in four sections as follows: (1) Plants and the environment, (2) Cell 

 structure and anatomy, (3) Physiology, (4) Reproduction. Chapters X and XI are entitled, 

 "Plant breeding and evolution,"- and "Historical development of botany and the biological 

 sciences." Part II comprises six chapters on the great groups of plants, and Part III five 

 chapters on "Representative families and species of the spring flora." — C. S. Gager. 



501. Forbes, R. D. Specialization vs. generalization in forestry education. Jour. For- 

 estry 18: 383-390. 1920. — Training in forestry has gone too far in specialization, the great 

 need being for men with training along broad lines. Economics, public speaking, psychology 

 and other cultural courses are recommended. — E. N. Munns. 



502. Gager, C. Stuart. Ninth annual report of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1919. 

 Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 9: 29-89. Apr., 1920. — Contains also the annual reports of the 

 heads of departments of the Garden. 



503. Grier, N. M. The range of information in biology. Ill Botany. Jour. Educat. 

 Psychol. 10: 509-16. 1919. — Nature study tends to include more botany. A hundred words 

 relating to plants were given to high school pupils, who were asked to define or explain them, 

 or state if familiar or new. It appears that botany has better basis on which to build than 

 physiology or zoology, and should not be excluded from curriculum. — A. Gundersen. 



504. Michael, Ellis L. Marine ecology and the coefficient of association. A plea in be- 

 half of quantitative biology. Jour. Ecol. 8 : 54-59. 1920. 



505. Petrie, D. The need of a comprehensive Dominion herbarium. New Zealand 

 Jour. Sci. Tech. 2 : 260-262. July, 1919. — Recommends that the Dominion government "should 

 without delay set about creating a comprehensive Domionon Herbarium, and appoint for its 

 management an expert director of Plant Research .... A good garden, not so much 

 for the display of floral richness as for practical economic purposes, will be an indispensable 

 appendage to any worthy herbarium today." Besides the more conmmonly recognized func- 

 tions of a national herbarium, author adds, "inquiries into the uses and the diseases of plants 

 of economic importance, and the investigation of other questions of biological significance." 

 Urges also the founding of a comprehensive plant museum for the Dominion.— C. S. Gager. 



506. Thomson, J. A. Proposals for a Dominion scheme of libraries of science and tech- 

 nology. New Zealand Jour. Sci. Tech. 2: 353-365. 1919. 



