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Haller, Albrecht v. (1708-77): 



1771-72: Bibliotheca botanica. Quae scripta ad rem herbariam facientia a rerum 

 initiis recensentur (2 vols., London). 



1908: Idem. Index emendatus. Perfecit J. Christian Bay. Ad diem natalem 

 Albert! de Haller ante hos ducentos annos Bernae nati celebrandum . . . edidit 

 Societas bernensis rerum naturae peritorum (57 p., Bern). With preface in 

 German. 



Harvey-Gibson, Robert John ( 1860- ) : 



1919: Outbnes of the history of botany (284 p., London; Isis 3, 297-99). 



lessen, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1821-89): 



1864: Botanik der Gegenwart und Vorzeit in culturhistorischer Entwicklung 

 (517 p., Leipzig). 



Photographic reprint by Chronica Botanica, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1948 (Isis 

 40, 82). 



Joret, Charles (1839-1914): 



1897-1904: Les plantes dans I'antiquite et au moyen age; histoire, usages et 

 symbolisme (vol. 1, 520 p., Paris 1897; vol. 2, 672 p., 1904). 



Not completed. The parts pubhshed deal only with classical antiquity, the 

 ancient Near East, Iran and India. 



Large, Ernest Charles: 



1940: The advance of the fungi. (488 p., ill., New York; Isis 34, 231-32). 



Lotsy, Johannes Paulas ( 1867- ) : 



1906-08: Vorlesungen iiber Descendenztheorien mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung 

 der botanischen Seite der Frage (2 vols., ill., Jena). 



Liitjeharms, Wilhelm Jan: 



1936: Zur Geschichte der Mykologie. Das XVIII. Jahrhundert (284 p., 2 pi., 

 Gouda; Isis 34, 78). 



The book deals with a larger field than the title suggests; it is not restricted to 

 the eighteenth century. 



Marzell, Heinrich ( 1885- ) : 



1922: Unsere Heilpflanzen, ihre Geschichte und ihre Stellung in der Volks- 

 kunde (268 p., 38 ill, Freiburg im Breisgau; Isis 5, 456-57). 



Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich (1791-1858): 



1854-57: Geschichte der Botanik (4 vols., Konigsberg). 



Mobius, Martin ( 1859- ) : 



1937: Geschichte der Botanik (464 p., Jena; Isis 30, 304-06). 



Pickering, Charles (1805-78): 



1879: Chronological history of plants. Man's record of his own existence illus- 

 trated through their names, uses and companionship (quarto, 1238 p., Boston). 



Pickering devoted the last 16 years of his life to this immense and fantastic 

 compilation which is quoted here, because it may possibly be of some use to certain 

 scholars. 



Pritzel, Georg August (1815-74): 



1851: Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium, inde a rerum botani- 

 corum initiis ad nostra usque tempora quindecim millia operum recensens (555 p., 

 Leipzig). 



Editio nova reformata (580 p., Leipzig 1872-77). The second part of the 

 book was edited after the author's death by Karl Jessen. The Editio nova was 

 reprinted in 1924 and again recently in Milan. 



