An Introduction To Historical Plant Geography

The present volume consists of eleven chapters opening with one covering the scope of the subject the relationships to allied sciences and methods of investigation and closing with an excellently prepared one on the concept of floral elements. Between these two chapters in much detail, is considered the history of the science areastheir types and origins parallelisms in the geographical distribution of plants and animals, artificial and natural factors in relation to the geographic distribution of plants, migrations of species and of floras and their causes and the historical causes for the present structure of areas and the composition of floras. Thus in this single volume students and investigators will find assembled in one place a great amount of well coordinated data presented in a lucid manner that should greatly lighten their burdens and act as a stimulant to further investigations.