On the day leading up to my sister’s birth, I carried around a glossy paperback called Botany for Beginners. At the time I was ten years old and obsessed with plants. An orderly child, I loved the ...

On the day leading up to my sister’s birth, I carried around a glossy paperback called Botany for Beginners. At the time I was ten years old and obsessed with plants. An orderly child, I loved the ...

THIS little book is, on the whole, admirably calculated to fulfil the intentions of its author. The young student is directed to observe simple and readily accessible objects, and his reasoning ...

THIS excellent little book, written by Prof. Bower in 1894, appears in a second edition after being subjected to careful revision. Mr. Gwynne-Vaughan now shares with Prof. Bower the author's ...