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Review : Botany for Young People. 
Whether as a scientific investigation or a means of training it is of 
importance not to risk stereotyping field-work of this kind by a too 
rigid adherence to the details of a set plan of operations. 
It only remains to say that as on former occasions the party 
met with every courtesy, alike from the inhabitants and local 
officials. 
F.W.O. 
BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
The Study of Plant Life for Young People, by M. C. Stopes, 
D.Sc., Pli.D., Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator of Botany at the 
University of Manchester, pp. XII. and 202. With numerous 
illustrations. London, Alexander Moring, Limited; the De La More 
Press, 32, George Street, Hanover Square, W., 1906. 
N her preface, the author of this little book reminds us that 
“ learning rather than teaching, is the essential factor in 
education,” and her attempt to provide “ a guide along the road 
for those who desire to learn something about the plants around 
them ” may be unhesitatingly pronounced a great success. 
A great feature of the book is the placing of the main facts of 
“ The Life of the Plant,” as determined by simple physiological 
experiments in the forefront. The first fifty pages are devoted for 
this exposition, so that a logical and connected idea of the life 
work of plants is gradually built up before any of the special 
phenomena which occupy most of our elementary botany courses 
are touched on. Part II. is devoted to “The Parts of a Plant’s 
Body, and their Uses.” Part III. to specialisation for protection 
against loss of water, for climbing, etc. Part IV. to “ The Five 
Great Classes of Plants,” and Part V. to “ Plants in their Homes.” 
The resolute facing at the outset of the fundamental principles 
of plant life, immensely simplifies the author’s task in later 
chapters. 
Perhaps the most original and striking part of the book is the 
concluding section on “ Plants in their Homes,” which appeals to the 
reviewer as written with a breadth and knowledge he has not met 
before in an English elementary work. It is admirably led up to 
