Excerpt from Handbook of Plant Morphology: Being the Handbook of Plant Dissection
Since 1886, when the Handbook of Plant Dissection was published, both the methods of laboratory work and knowledge of the plant kingdom have very materially changed. The authors thought that any demand for the book would have disappeared long since, but continued sales have forced them to the conclusion that in justice to the subject and also to themselves a revision is necessary. In morphological instruction the very detailed study of a few types has given place to a study of the most significant features of a considerable number of types; and the accumulation of somewhat unrelated facts has been succeeded by the attempt to organize the facts into a connected account of the evolution of the plant kingdom.
An adequate revision, therefore, meant a complete rewriting, and this the original authors were unable to undertake. Accordingly they have delegated it to one whose contact with laboratory work in elementary morphology is fresher and has proved to be in every way successful.
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