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 ...
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 ...