THE STUDY OF PLANT LIFE
First Impression October 1906.
Second Impression February 1907.
Second Edition 1910.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
ANCIENT PLANTS
BEING A SIMPLE ACCOUNT OF THEPAST VEGETATION OF THE EARTHAND OF THE RECENT IMPORTANTDISCOVERIES MADE IN THIS REALMOF NATURE STUDY
Illustrated. Demy 8vo, 4s. 6d. net
“Miss Stopes’s book is an enterprising and able attempt to popularizea difficult subject. The really keen student will undoubtedlybe stimulated to pursue the study of fossil plants further, and eventhose who are not students will get some new ideas and derive acertain amount of interest from a book which is sometimes brilliantbut never dull.”—Nature.
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THE STUDY OF
PLANT LIFE
BY
M. C. STOPES
D.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Munich), F.L.S.
Lecturer in Palæobotany at the University of Manchester
Second Edition
LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED
NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY
1910
PRINTED AT
THE VILLAFIELD PRESS
GLASGOW
PREFACE
As a result of the present efforts to raise the standard of education inthis country, many different “Methods of Teaching” are receivingour grave consideration. So insistent are their advocates, that westand in some danger of forgetting that learning, rather thanteaching, is the essential factor in education. It is not the knowledgegiven us ready-made by the teacher, but that which welearn, acquiring it by our own efforts, which enters into our beingand becomes a lasting possession.
Therefore this little book does not pretend so much to teach asto act as a guide along the road for those