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  Boiver 
  — 
  Botanical 
  Research 
  during 
  the 
  War. 
  

  

  Gibbs 
  from 
  British 
  North 
  Borneo 
  and 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Ridley 
  

   from 
  Dutch 
  New 
  Guinea 
  have 
  been 
  published. 
  The 
  

   working 
  out 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Compton's 
  collection 
  from 
  New 
  Cale- 
  

   donia 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  well 
  advanced 
  though 
  now 
  inter- 
  

   rupted 
  by 
  his 
  duty 
  in 
  the 
  war. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  thus 
  evidence 
  of 
  progress 
  in 
  Britain 
  during 
  

   the 
  war 
  in 
  many 
  different 
  lines 
  of 
  botanical 
  enquiry, 
  and 
  

   in 
  some 
  cases 
  of 
  discoveries 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  importance. 
  But 
  

   in 
  addition 
  to 
  what 
  is 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Journals 
  much 
  

   work 
  relating 
  directly 
  to 
  the 
  war 
  is 
  being 
  carried 
  through 
  

   by 
  botanists. 
  Naturally 
  this 
  cannot 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  

   except 
  in 
  quite 
  general 
  terms. 
  But 
  the 
  fact 
  makes 
  it 
  all 
  

   the 
  more 
  satisfactory 
  that 
  so 
  much 
  other 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  

   completed, 
  which 
  has 
  no 
  relation 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  struggle. 
  

  

  Among 
  biological 
  treatises 
  published 
  in 
  Britain 
  since 
  

   the 
  outbreak 
  of 
  war 
  perhaps 
  the 
  widest 
  in 
  its 
  scope 
  is 
  

   that 
  on 
  "Growth 
  and 
  Form" 
  by 
  Prof. 
  D'Arcy 
  Thomp- 
  

   son. 
  It 
  deals 
  with 
  problems 
  both 
  in 
  the 
  vegetable 
  and 
  

   animal 
  kingdoms 
  filling 
  in 
  the 
  "No 
  Man's 
  Land" 
  

   between 
  these 
  sciences, 
  physics 
  and 
  mathematics, 
  with 
  

   frequent 
  allusion 
  also 
  to 
  philosophical 
  writings. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  

   positive 
  and 
  constructive 
  addition 
  to 
  biological 
  literature. 
  

  

  