General Literature 



SCOTT (1917), Structural Botany, Part I. 



Bowtm (1919), Tkt Living Plant. 



STIASBIKCEK (1911. Eng. Tram.) Ttxt Book of Botany ; Fertilisation, p. 510; 



.it, p, 86 ; Life-cycles, p. 479 ; Chimaeras, p. 188 

 BOWIK (1919), L*t*rn on Stx and htrtdity. 

 ( -HI KCH(i9o8), n*tafnr**M**mim,*v\ I 

 JOST (1907, Eng. Trans.) Jbriww *w />/*/ Pfytiotogy, pp. 3*7. 3 8 3- 

 EWAIT (1908), Longevity of Stilt. 

 GUFPY (1906^ /V<m/ Diiptnal. 



KiKNtt (1895, Eng. Trans.) Vol. II, Tht Natural Hnlory of Plant* ; Pollen, p. 95; 

 PP- 151, >43' Croat-pollination, p. 987; Autogamy, p. 331; 



Ditpersal, pp. 790, 833. 



BATISOW (1913). Mi** ft Principle of Htrlty. 

 DABisniai (191 A Brttding and Ikt Mcndetoat 

 MoftGAN (1915). 7* Mkani*m of Mcndrtan Hcrfdity, p. 5. 

 BAYLISS (191 1), TV Afe/Wrr of Knnymt Action. 

 .LSOU, Dictionary of Gardening, Grafting. 



Ntia (1908), Btrickte, p. 26, Chimaeraa. 

 LOEB (1913), Artificial Partkmogtntn* and FtrtUination^ p. 2 

 SCMIMPIR ( 1 903, Eng. Trans.) P/tm/ Geography ; Formations, p. 1 59 ; Cold T 



Forest Formations, p. 556. 



MINIMUM BOTANY. The preceding schedules, together with a previous 

 issue (Structural Botany, Hoc. Mem. 4) represent a course of elementary instruction 

 on the botany of Angiosperms, as the higher vegetation of the land surface, adapted 

 for a class of Forestry students, comprising as lectures with associated practical work, 

 given in Michaelmas Term (1919) on a revised syllabus. They also com two-thirds 

 of the general elementary syllabus for the Preliminary FTammafinn in Botany of the 

 School of Natural Science (a set on ' Lower Types ' being required to complete the 

 evolutionary scheme). 



Experience of the teaching of elementary Botany in the University during the 

 last decades suggests that there is only one aspect of the subject which has proved 

 really of general interest to students and university authorities alike, this being the 

 reduction of such an introductory course to the barest minimum. A fairly msontble 

 general course formerly taught in two terms (a total of 16 weeks, or 48 lectures), 

 instead of being extended to a full first year's scheme, has been reduced in recent 

 years to a period of 12 weeks, including 36 lectures, to suit the convenience of 

 Medical Students ; while an abbreviated course of 8 weeks, or 14 lectures, is now 

 regarded as sufficient for students of Forestry, so far as the general principles of the 

 science are concerned, on the understanding that these students will continue farther 

 elementary work in special, ' more useful ', branches of the subject The nrfrnring 

 schedules may be taken as sugmUve of trie possibiUties and Umiutk>ns of such cc^rses^ 



That Botany should be described as the most neglected of all modem sciences 

 may be possibly the expression of the incomplete vision of botanists ; yet out of 

 a total annual aggregate of about 3.000 students in recent years, not more than 1-3 

 per cent, (and more often i than 3) have attended even elementary botanical 

 the great majority of these again only under the compulsion of 



system. The subject is practically ignored by classical and literary circle*, and 

 equally so by chemists and physicists ; while the elementary course may be said to be 

 merely vestigial in Medicine, as recapitulatory of a p 

 At this lime of the world's history it is remarkabl 

 importance, the teaching of Plant-biology should be 



merely vestigial in Medicine, as recapitulatory of a phase of Herbalism and Pharmacy. 

 At this lime of the world's history it is remarkable that in a university of primary 

 importance, the teaching of Plant-biology should be of such a meagre description. 



