THE first edition of Part I. of Profs. Bower and Vines's “Practical Botany” was published in 1885 (see NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 73); and during the three, years that have elapsed the book has become ...
THE professor of botany at the South-Eastern Agricultural College at Wye has done well to depart from the utterly inefficient standard of text-books in this subject hitherto set and followed in this ...