Author: Franz Julius Ferdinand MeyenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phytogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Outlines of the Geography of Plants
Author: Franz Julius Ferdinand MeyenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phytogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Essay on the Geography of Plants
Author: Alexander von HumboldtPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226360687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Church. The chronicles of the expedition were published in Paris after Humboldt’s return, and first among them was the 1807 “Essay on the Geography of Plants.” Among the most cited writings in natural history, after the works of Darwin and Wallace, this work appears here for the first time in a complete English-language translation. Covering far more than its title implies, it represents the first articulation of an integrative “science of the earth, ” encompassing most of today’s environmental sciences. Ecologist Stephen T. Jackson introduces the treatise and explains its enduring significance two centuries after its publication.
Outlines of Geography ...
Author: William Lawson (of St. Mark's College, Chelsea.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Plant Geography of Chile
Author: Andres Moreira-MunozPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048187486
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The first and so far only Plant Geography of Chile was written about 100 years ago, since when many things have changed: plants have been renamed and reclassified; taxonomy and systematics have experienced deep changes as have biology, geography, and biogeography. The time is therefore ripe for a new look at Chile’s plants and their distribution. Focusing on three key issues – botany/systematics, geography and biogeographical analysis – this book presents a thoroughly updated synthesis both of Chilean plant geography and of the different approaches to studying it. Because of its range – from the neotropics to the temperate sub-Antarctic – Chile’s flora provides a critical insight into evolutionary patterns, particularly in relation to the distribution along the latitudinal profiles and the global geographical relationships of the country’s genera. The consequences of these relations for the evolution of the Chilean Flora are discussed. This book will provide a valuable resource for both graduate students and researchers in botany, plant taxonomy and systematics, biogeography, evolutionary biology and plant conservation.
Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants
Author: Edward Lewis SturtevantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Plants, edible -- dictionaries -- biographies of Edward Lewis Sturtevant: p.1-11.
The Christian Philosopher. Designed to Exhibit in the Outlines of Natural History and the Elements of Physics, the ... Superintending Providence of the Deity in the Works of Creation ... With Original Poetical Illustrations
Author: William MARTIN (Editor of the Educational Magazine, etc.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Laboratory Outline for General Botany
Author: Ned L. HuffHewett Cottrell Watson
Author: Frank N. EgertonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135175677X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This title was first published in 2003. Hewett Cottrell Watson was a pioneer in a new science not yet defined in Victorian times - ecology - and was practically the first naturalist to conduct research on plant evolution, beginning in 1834. His achievement in British science is commemorated by the fact that the Botanical Society of the British Isles named its journal after him - Watsonia - but of greater significance to the history of science is his contribution to the development of Darwin’s theory of evolution. The correspondence between Watson and Darwin, analysed for the first time in this book, reveals the extent to which Darwin profited from Watson’s data. Darwin’s subsequent fame, however, is one of the reasons why Watson became almost forgotten. At the same time, Watson can be called a classic Victorian eccentric, and his other ambition, in addition to promoting and organizing British botany, was to carry forward the cause of phrenology. Indeed, he was a more daring theoretician in phrenology than ever he was in botany, but in the end he abandoned it, not being able to raise phrenology to the level of an accepted science. This biography traces both the influences and characteristics that shaped Watson’s outlook and personality, and indeed his science, and the institutional contexts within which he worked. At the same time, it makes evident the extent of his real contributions to the science of plant ecology and evolution.
An Outline of Geography
Author: Preston Everett JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description