The Elements of Botany (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture)

Jussieu, Adrien de/ Wilson, James Hewetson (TRN)

Cambridge University Press（2011/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 790 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108037310
• DDC分類 580

Full Description

The author of pioneering works on the plant families Euphorbiaceae and Malpighiaceae, French botanist Adrien de Jussieu (1797-1853), from a famous family of scientists, became professor of botany at the Paris Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in 1826. The author of several specialised monographs, he is best known for his Botanique: Cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle (1842), an exhaustive introduction to botany originally intended for use in French schools. This much acclaimed book went through twelve editions between 1842 and 1884, and was translated into many languages. This English translation, completed while he was still an Oxford student by the young British botanist James Hewetson Wilson (1826-50), was first published in 1849. It contains additional descriptions of the different systems and structures that clarify de Jussieu's terminology, as well as an appendix on geology.

Contents

The introduction; The Elements of Botany: The organs of vegetation; Functions of the organs of vegetation; Organs of reproduction; Envelopes of the flower; Organs of fecundation; A few general phenomena of vegetation; The principles of classification; Botanical geography; Appendix.