PLANT GENETICS 



By JOHN M. COULTER 



Head of the Department of Botany in the University of Chicago 



and MERLE M. COULTER 



Instructor in Plant Genetics in the University of Chicago 



^ This book has been written to meet an increasing need among botanical students. Such 

 students in these days, in whatever phase of botany they may be specialising, find it neces- 

 sary to read with understanding much of the literature of plant genetics, because it is 

 becoming increasingly significant in all botanical problems. This means that teachers and 

 investigators must be able to command th.e literature of plant genetics, much of which has 

 been so complex as to be a closed book for the uninitiated. Plant Genetics is an attempt to 

 open this subject to botanical students. 



fl The book is not intended to be a thorough, authoritative text, but a relatively simple 

 presentation of the more significant investigations on plant genetics which will initiate the 

 student into the subject. Material dealing with some highly specialized phases of genetics 

 and material that is very complex has been purposely omitted for pedagogical reasons. In 

 short, the book is an easy introduction to plant genetics. 



X+214 pages, i2mo, cloth; $1 .50, postage extra (weight i lb. 2 oz.) 



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A SOURCE BOOK OF 



BIOLOGICAL NATURE-STUDY 



By ELLIOT R. DOWNING 



Associate Professor of Natural Science in the School of Education 

 The University of Chicago 



For teacher-training classes, school libraries, and general reading by every- 

 one who is interested in the common animals and plants. The book is 

 illustrated with more than three hundred sketches and photographs, and 

 the descriptions and keys further faciHtate the identification of plant and 

 animal forms. The author gives suggestive discussions of the hfe-histories 

 and the problems that confront animals and plants, and includes some 

 discussion of their economic value and their conservation. 



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The Source Book is the second published volume of 

 The University of Chicago Nature-Study Series 



The first volume is 

 A Field and Laboratory Guide in Biological Pfature-Study 



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