Re: Slack book

From: R B (eklaab@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 11:37:50 PDT

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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:37:50 PDT
From: "R B" <eklaab@hotmail.com>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: Slack book

>I just received the reprint of the Adrian Slack book 'Carnivorous
>Plants' from the UK site for Amazon.com. The book is the same as the
> >previous UK edition except for the publisher, and that the cover has
> >changed to a picture of a VFT instead of a Darlingtonia ( there's a
> >different Darlingtonia picture on the back cover ). I have compared >it
>with my hardback of the 1980 MIT edition; there are no corrections >or
>updates. The book still has errors and mistaken identifications

That's kind of disappointing to hear. I'm relative newcomer to CP's, so I
don't have any of Slack's books, so I've ordered this one.

Ron

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