Essentials of College Botany (Classic Reprint)

Botany in America since the preparar Qtion of its predecessor thirty-five years ago. Then Hbotaoieat laboratories were jiK tcoming into exktence, Qtutd for thefirst time stud kts of Botany were able to study pT otoatHB and cells and tissues and other minute structures of plants. It is a matter of bistwy that hatf a dozen yeiws later the publiB her 8objection to the caption Laberatwy StiK fies for a new eifititm was able to bring about the substitution ot Prwiicai Studies, as leas Mk to prejodtce teachers against stich IK eentaticm of the subject. Xooking back to that tiJB se we realise what progress has been made in the teaching (the science, fcv to-day erery college has its laboratwy for the study ptauft structure, and this change in teaebing has gone so far that it has invaded the secondary echoed, in wbieb there are now many well-eqned botanical laboratories. Looking at the science from another standpCH nt it is rf interest to note that thirty-five years ago the number of spedes of known plants was between 125,000 and 150,000, while tcM yit has risen to morethan333,(K)0. Then the number of fiowering plants was placed st a little more than 100,000, while now it is about 133,000: then the fewer ants {ciT ptogams )were thought to nundjep from 25,000 to 40,000, while now there are more than 100,000 enumerated. Vr:o:--
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