Excerpt from Laboratory Manual of Plant Histology

If other teachers should find the work acceptable, we would remind them that a course of carefully prepared lectures should supplement the laboratory work, and we urge them to so present the subject, that the intergradations of tissues may not be overlooked, and the larger relations of great tissue masses and their beautiful adaptations to the necessities of the living plant, may be completely understood by the student. No true teacher will allow a student to consider these individual studies in an unrelated way. We have cited freely text books and reference works of unquestioned value, such as are to be found on the book-shelves of every good laboratory, but we have not made a practice of referring to original papers, as it would be for the most part out of placein a work of this kind. But this does not release the teacher from the duty of placing the most important papers bearing directly on a subject of study within the reach of the student and requiring him to look them over.

The inconvenience of using plates placed at the end of a book will not be great, and is offset by the fact that they are removed from the unavoidable scrutiny of the student as he is executing his own drawings, but any defect in this or any other direction noticed and communicated by a teacher may be rectified in another edition.viii introduction.

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