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 ...

TAKING a general view, there are four different sections recognisable in this students' practical botany: histology is placed first, then follow physiology of growth and nutrition, physiology of ...