Title
The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown
Related Titles
Series:
Ray Society (Series)
Series:
The Ray society
By
Brown, Robert, 1773-1858
Bennett, John J. (John Joseph), 1801-1876
Hardwicke, Robert
, publisher
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, Published for the Ray society by R. Hardwicke, 1866-68
Notes
Ed. by J. J. Bennett.
Printer from colophons (text) and title page verso (atlas).
Edited by John J. Bennett.
Atlas wanting.
Contains "the works of the distinguished author, now for the first time collected in England, and reprinted from the originals, without change, in accordance with his wishes. It had been his intention to reprint them himself with annotations, but, unfortunately for science, this intention was never carried out, and it remained for the editor simply to superintend a verbatim reprint."--Preface, v. 1.
Contents: v. 1. I. Geographico-botanical, and II. Structural and physiological memoirs.--v. 2. III. Systematic memoirs, and IV. Contributions to systematic works.--v. 3. Atlas.
"The first ten plates, from the appendix to Flinders's 'Narrative,' are printed from the original coppers, now in my possession; and all the remainder, with one exception (plate XXXIII, which has been re-engraved for the present edition), are from coppers kindly lent by the council of the Linnean Society"--Atlas, page 1.
Volumes 1-2 published in 1866 and 1867; atlas published in 1868.
Includes indexes (separate indexes of subjects in v. 1 and v. 2; indexes of names of plants in both volumes in v. 2).
Contents: (from title pages) Vol. I. Containing I. Geographico-botanical, and II. Structural and physiological memoirs. -- Vol. II. Containing III. Systematic memoirs. and IV. Contributions to systematic works. -- Vol. III. Atlas.
Subjects
Botanie (algemeen)
,
Botany
,
Botany (General)
,
Engravings
,
Flora
,
Nomenclature
,
Phytogeography
,
Plant anatomy
,
Plant morphology
,
Plant physiology
,
plantenanatomie
,
plantenfysiologie
,
Plantengeografie
,
plantenmorfologie
,
Plantkunde
,
Plants
BHL Collections
Charles Darwin's Library
Classification
580.4
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.21295
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/05039462
OCLC:
41053760
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51430738
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