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that the leaves of the Japanese Acer carpinifclium Sieb. & Zucc. 

 which I saw growing in Kew Gardens, were those of a maple? 

 I could hardly believe my eyes, but there were the maple fruits. 

 University of Colorado, Boulder, Col. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



A Textbook of general Botany for Colleges and 

 Universities* 



This new textbook by Holman and Robbins is well planned and 

 clearly written. It gives the student a general survey of the 

 field and at the same time is not too comprehensive to serve as a 

 general text for the first year of college botany. The book is 

 divided into two parts. Part I deals with the higher plants, 

 starting with the single cell and then taking up the different 

 portions of the plant. Part II commences with the lower forms 

 and works upward to the seed plants. It includes as well a 

 chapter on heredity and evolution. This plan would seem to be 

 the most logical way to attack the subject, since the higher plants 

 are perhaps the first to attract the attention of the elementary 

 student and at the same time they give an easy avenue of 

 approach to the more lowly organized forms. 



Each chapter has an outline of the contents at the beginning 

 with reference to the pages where the subject is treated. This 

 makes an excellent outline for study, showing the main divisions 

 and the relation that the topics bear to one another. The book 

 is well and fully illustrated and the drawings carefully labeled. 

 Structure is discussed first, in order that the student may have a 

 clear idea of the function, which is not left for a separate chapter, 

 but the physiology of the organ is taken up immediately after 

 its morphology. While morphology is so well and clearly dealt 

 with physiology is not neglected, for there is a considerable 

 amount of space devoted to the latter. This is a decided step 

 in the right direction, since this side of the problem is very often 

 overlooked, or rather poorly treated in an elementary course in 

 botany. The authors have succeeded in giving us a well balanced 



* Holman, Richard M. and Robbins, Wilfred W. A textbook of general 

 botany for colleges and universities. 590 pages. John Wiley & Sons. New 

 York. 1924. $4.00. 



