Book Review: Plant Movements

In Barbara Gillespie Pickard’s introduction to this classical work, she says “If asked to choose the scientific report which most clearly marks the beginning of the modern study of plant growth, a great many botanists would select Charles Darwin’s The Power of Movement in Plants,” and she concludes that “no doubt, in this age of ever more complicated and expensive science, readers will appreciate the refreshing simplicity of Darwin’s observations on plant movement.”