Abstract
THE history of botanical science in the United States is being duly surveyed and conserved. Already from the Princeton University Press there has come an account of the work of John Torrey; a volume on American botany from 1873 until 1892 is promised in the near future; now there is available a considerable work on John Merle Coulter. The method of presentation is biographical, but the work is really as much the history of a period as an account of the life and work of an individual. It is well that such studies should be undertaken before the essential documentary materials are lost or begin the inevitable drift into obscurity.
John Merle Coulter
Missionary in Science. By Andrew Denny Rodgers III. Pp. x + 321 + 2 plates. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1944.) 25s. net.
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WARDLAW, C. John Merle Coulter. Nature 155, 589–591 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155589a0
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