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The Chicago University Text-Book. 
REVIEW. 
THE CHICAGO UNIVERSITY TEXT-BOOK. 
A Text-Book of Botany for Colleges and Universities by 
members of the botanical staff' of the University of Chicago : John Merle 
Coulter, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Morphology, Charles Reid Barnes, 
Ph.D., late Professor of Plant Physiology, Henry Chandler Cowles, 
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Plant Ecology. Vol. I, Morphology and 
Physiology. American Booh Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, 
1910. Pp. viii and 484, and A to L (Index), with 699 figures in the text. 
NGLISH-SPEAKING botanists will turn with considerable 
interest to the work under review. Elementary text-books 
of botany are very numerous, but really satisfactory ones which 
can be whole-heartedly recommended to students, and especially 
text-hooks which show real constructive originality are naturally rare. 
The University of Chicago has deservedly attained a high place 
among the botanical schools of the world, and its productions of 
all kinds command attention and respect. The methods of 
teaching adopted differ in many important respects from those 
usual in this country, 1 and the whole “ atmosphere ” is also necessarily 
somewhat different, so that a book which reproduces in epitome 
the characteristics of the school cannot fail to interest and instruct 
British botanists. 
The text-book is divided into three parts, Morphology, Phy¬ 
siology, and Ecology, the reponsibility for each being taken by 
Professor Coulter, Professor Barnes and Professor Cowles res¬ 
pectively. Of these the present volume contains the first two 
parts, Morphology and Physiology, while the part on Ecology is 
promised for the present year (1911). 
The authors explain their objects in an excellently clear and 
business-like preface, from which we cite some sentences. 
“ The three parts of the book .... are felt to be the funda¬ 
mental divisions which should underlie the work of most sub¬ 
divisions of botanical investigation .... We recognize that the pre¬ 
sentation of the three great subjects here included is very compact 
... . the student is expected to use it in relating his observations to 
one another and to the general points of view that the book seeks 
to develop. There is a continuity of presentation in each part, so 
that random selection may miss the largest meaning.” 
1 cf. Miss Prankerd’s “ Botany at Chicago University: some 
impressions.” New Phytologist, Vol. VII, p. 260, 1908. 
