An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany: Or, a Systematic View of the Organisation, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distribution, of the ... Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture) - Softcover

Lindley, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108076653 ISBN 13: 9781108076654

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Employed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist John Lindley (1799–1865) is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution, and for saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. As an author, he is best remembered for his works on taxonomy and classification. A partisan of the 'natural' system of Jussieu rather than the Linnaean, Lindley writes, in his preface to this 1830 work, that it was originally created for his own use, to avoid having recourse to 'rare, costly and expensive publications' available only in the libraries of the wealthy. His intention is to give a 'systematic view of the organisation, natural affinities, and geographical distribution of the whole vegetable kingdom', as well as of the uses of plants 'in medicine, the arts, and rural or domestic economy'. The work is important in the history of taxonomy.

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Book Description

In this 1830 work, important in the history of taxonomy, John Lindley (1799-1865) gives a 'systematic view of the organisation, natural affinities, and geographical distribution of the whole vegetable kingdom', as well as of the uses of plants 'in medicine, the arts, and rural or domestic economy'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108076653
• ISBN 13: 9781108076654
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 430