Heralds of Botany

detail of embryonic leaves from Historia plantarum

Heralds of Science - seminal works in Botany from the Burndy Library

Cover of D. Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuters Vorläufige Nachricht von einigen das Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden Versuchen und Beobachtungen.

D. Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuters Vorläufige Nachricht von einigen das Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden Versuchen und Beobachtungen v 1

Kölreuter, Joseph Gottlieb; Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung,
In der Gleditschischen Handlung
1761-1766

28. Pollinizing Agents

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D. Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuters Vorläufige Nachricht von einigen das Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden Versuchen und Beobachtungen v 2-4

Kölreuter, Joseph Gottlieb; Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung,
In der Gleditschischen Handlung
1761-1766

28. Pollinizing Agents

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Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen v 1

Sprengel, Christian Konrad
Bei Friedrich Vieweg dem æltern
1793

30. Insect Fertilization of Flowers

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Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen v 2

Sprengel, Christian Konrad
Bei Friedrich Vieweg dem æltern
1793

30. Insect Fertilization of Flowers

Cover of De historia stirpium commentarii insignes

De historia stirpium commentarii insignes

Fuchs, Leonhart
In officina Isingriniana
anno Christi MDXLII [1542]

19. Celebrated Herbal

Cover of De plantis libri XVI

De plantis libri XVI

Cesalpino, Andrea
Apud Georgium Marescottum
MDLXXXIII [1583]

20. Plant Classification

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Die mutationstheorie v. 1

Vries, Hugo de
Veit & comp.
1901-03

36. Mutation of Characters

This classic work describes de Vries' research in mutations and how it led him to the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity. 

Cover of Die mutationstheorie. Versuche und beobachtungen über die entstehung von arten im pflanzenreich,

Die mutationstheorie v. 2

Vries, Hugo de
Veit & comp.
1901-03

36. Mutation of Characters

This classic work describes de Vries' research in mutations and how it led him to the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity. 

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Experiments upon vegetables

Ingenhousz, Jan
Printed for P. Elmsly ... and H. Payne
1779

29. Photosynthesis Discovered

Cover of Historia plantarum

Historia plantarum

Ray, John; Camel, Georg Joseph; Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
Typis Mariæ Clark, prostant apud Henricum Faithorne [etc.]
1686-1704.

24. English Scientific Botany

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Historia plantarum v 1

Ray, John; Camel, Georg Joseph; Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
Typis Mariæ Clark, prostant apud Henricum Faithorne [etc.]
1686-1704

24. English Scientific Botany

In this work Ray describes some 18,000 plants and set up the species as the basic unit of taxonomy.
Cover of Historia plantarum

Historia plantarum v 2

Ray, John; Camel, Georg Joseph; Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
Typis Mariæ Clark, prostant apud Henricum Faithorne [etc.]
1686-1704

24. English Scientific Botany

In this work Ray describes some 18,000 plants and set up the species as the basic unit of taxonomy.

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Historia plantarum v 3

Ray, John; Camel, Georg Joseph; Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de
Typis Mariæ Clark, prostant apud Henricum Faithorne [etc.]
1686-1704

24. English Scientific Botany

In this work Ray describes some 18,000 plants and set up the species as the basic unit of taxonomy.

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Marcelli Malpighii philosophi & medici Bononiensis, è Regia Societate, Anatome plantarum v. 1

Malpighi, Marcello
Impensis Johannis Martyn, Regiae Societatis typographi, ad insigne campanae in coemeterio Divi Pauli
MDCLXXV-MDCLXXIX [1675-1679]

22. Plant Growth

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Michaelis Bernhardi Valentini prof. medici ... Polychresta exotica in curandis affectibus contumacissimis probatissima

Valentini, Michael Bernhard; Camerarius, Rudolf Jakob
Sumptibus Johannis Davidis Zunneri
MDCCI [1701]

25. Seed Pollination
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On the flora of Australia

Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Lovell Reeve ...
1859

33. Organic Evolution

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On the germination, development, and fructification of the higher Cryptogamia

Hofmeister, Wilhelm; Currey, Frederick
Published for the Ray Society, by Robert Hardwicke ...
1862

34. Generation in Cryptogamia

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Theophrasti De Historia plantarum liber primus[-decimus]

Theophrastus; Gazēs, Theodōros; Merula, Giorgio
Per Bartholomaeum Confalonerium de Salodio
anno Domini 1483 die XX Februari

18. Greek Botany

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Vegetable staticks, or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables

Hales, Stephen; Royal Society (Great Britain)
Printed for W. and J. Innys ... and T. Woodward ...
MDCCXXVII [1727]

26. Plant Nutrition

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Vermischte Schriften botanischen Inhalts

Mohl, Hugo von
Bei Ludwig Friedrich Fues
1845

32. Protoplasm

This work describes Mohl's definitive description of the substance that makes up the main part of a cell, which Mohr called protoplasm. 

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Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden

Mendel, Gregor
Im Verlage des Vereines
1866

35. Hereditary Characters