Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... Gift ANNOUNCEMENT. Since 1886, when the Handbook oj Plant Dissection was published, both the methods of laboratory work and knowledge of the plant kingdom have very materially changed. The authors thought that any demand for the book would have disappeared long since, but continued sales have forced them to the conclusion that in justice to the subject and also to themselves a revision is necessary. In morphological instruction the very detailed study of a few types has given place to a study of the most significant features of a considerable number of types; and the accumulation of somewhat unrelated facts has been succeeded by the attempt to organize the facts into a connected account of the evolution of the plant kingdom. An adequate revision, therefore, meant a complete rewriting, and this the original authors were unable to undertake. Accordingly they have delegated it to one whose contact with laboratory work in elementary morphology is fresher and has proved to be in every way successful. The book is a new one, although developed in accordance with the old plans, and it will far more worthily supply the demand that seems to exist than could an edition long since out of date. J. C. Arthur. C. R. Barnes. J. M. Coulter. March 10, 1904. AUTHOR'S PREFACE. In the preparation of these outlines it is recognized that a given set of directions is not completely adequate for the work of any two teachers, nor even for one teacher's use during two consecutive years. A good instructor is the chief determinant in a course of study. In his hands the materials, the laboratory, and the book become efficient in the presentation of the subject. To his students the laboratory guide serves as an outline to which he makes additions as determined by the...