Botany for Schools: a Textbook suitable for School Certificate and similar Examinations

Abstract

THE course of botany contained in these pages is claimed to cover completely the syllabus of the various School Certificate examinations. The authors also claim that the book is “suitable for the general reader who is interested in studying and experimenting with plants”. Few textbooks are of interest or use to the ‘general’ reader; and this definitely is a textbook. A two years' botanical course is developed along orthodox lines. The photographs are good and are genuinely illustrative of certain botanical facts. The line diagrams, however, leave much to be desired, and in a number of cases they are misleading. The subject matter is presented in an appropriate form, but in places, especially the experimental physiology, it tends to be rather out of date.