21 MAY 1927, Page 18

This Week's Books

Tim life-work of Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose in connexion with the sensitiveness of plants has now been told by himself in popular form. This new and inexpensive volume will certainly have a large circle of readers who could not master his more technical publications on the ascent of sap and the nervous system of the mimosa. In Plant Autographs (Longmans. 7s. 6d.), which Mr. Aldous Huxley reviews this week, there is nothing the non-scientific reader need boggle at. It is one of the most fascinating records of research we have read for years.