Possible printer’s errors and inconsistencies, including spelling,
hyphenation, punctuation, and spacing, were retained except for changes
listed below.
_Italics_ and +Small Caps+ have been converted as so.
Subscripts, such as H_{2}O, were converted as so.
Illustrations have been moved to better fit the text and for
standardization, but the page numbers on the list of illustrations have
been left unchanged. Likewise, other page number errors in the TOC were
retained.
A Table of Tables has been added for ease of use.
Footnotes were reindexed and moved to the end of the book.
Where there was no, or debatable, space between a number and either a
scientific variable or abbreviation, a space was added or assumed.
On page 7, a heading was included as a sidenote.
On page 11, a missing closing bracket was added to “Aristolochia
serpentaria”.
On page 14, a missing period was added to the sentence that ends with
“green and wrinkled above and ash colored and hairy below”.
On page 27, a missing period was added to the “C” as in “Celsius” that
follows “Fraction 1”.
On page 27, the footnote connected to the word “Wallach” was missing
its number in the footnote, so a number was added for consistency.
On page 33, a missing “to” was added to “200° to 205°”.
In table VI, “50-mm. tube” was standardized to “50 mm. tube” for
consistency with the text elsewhere.
In table VI, the formatting of the numbers in the “Fraction” column
were changed from right-justification to left-justification to match
the other tables.
In table VI, the formatting of the numbers in the “Rotation” column
were changed to match the respective column of other tables.
On page 34, “Auwer’s” was changed to “Auwers’” since the name of the
person is “Auwers”.