Abstract
THE original of this little book is the third edition of a small pamphlet entitled “Die Anatomischen Unterscheidungsmerkmale der wichtigeren in Deutschland wachsender Hölzer,” and why the translator should have altered the significance of the title is not explained. In any case it would not be easy to justify the more ambitious title of the English translation, seeing that no additions have been made to the original, and that the original title claims too much. For the book does little more than give in bare outline the more conspicuous features observed on the transverse sections of our common woods; and although this is done fairly well, the treatment is neither exhaustive nor free from defects.
Timbers, and how to Know Them.
By Dr. R. Hartig, Professor of Botany in Munich University. Translated by W. Somerville. (Edinburgh: Douglas, 1890.)
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Our Book Shelf. Nature 42, 315–316 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042315b0
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