Abstract
DR. VELENOVSKÝ has written the earlier portion of a work which will be found of no small interest to botanists, not only because the author has brought together a number of new observations of his own, but because he deals with the whole mass of facts from a definite point of view. Probably, as he himself hints in the preface, his views may not command general acceptance, and we confess to experiencing a certain sense of disappointment after reading the book. The point of view which the author adopts is, it seems to us, too rigid and formal. Morphology has really outgrown the stage of pure formalism. We have come to recognise that the task of trying to understand why and how development has followed on the lines one can actually trace, is overshadowing the purely formal abstractions which used to constitute morphology.
Vergleichende Morphologie der Pflanzen.
I. Theil, mit 200 i.d. Text gedr. Abbild. u. zwei lith. Doppeltafeln. By Dr. Jos. Velenovský. Pp. 277 + plates. (Prag: Fr. Rivnác, 1905.)
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F., J. Vergleichende Morphologie der Pflanzen . Nature 77, 76 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077076a0
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