Selected botanical papers.

Title
  1. Selected botanical papers.
Published by
  1. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1963]
Author
  1. Knobloch, Irving W. (Irving William), 1907-

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Description
  1. 311 pages illustrations; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Prentice-Hall biological science series
Uniform title
  1. Prentice-Hall biological science series.
Alternative title
  1. Botanical papers.
Subject
  1. Botany
  2. Botany
  3. botany
Contents
  1. Part One. The Importance of Plants -- The Importance of Plants / William J. Robbins -- Plants and Civilizations / Elmer Drew Merrill -- The Role of Botany in a Liberal Education / Harry J. Fuller -- Part Two. The Development of Botany -- Development of Botany in the United States / John M. Coulter -- Part Three. Ecology -- The Growth of a Science / Francis Ramaley -- The Nature and Role of Plant Succession / Frederic E. Clements -- Parasitism in Flowering Plants / F.O. Bower -- Pollination of Orchids through Pseudocopulation / Oakes Ames -- Part Four. Phytogeography and Exploration -- The Similarity Between the Flora of Japan and that of the United States, Especially the Atlantic Side / Asa Gray -- The Curare Poison / Alexander Von Humboldt -- Exploration / Bassett Maguire -- Aspects of Arctic Botany / Nicholas Polumin -- Part Five. Systematic Botany -- Excerpts from the Critica Botanica / Carolus Linnaeus -- The Reason behind Scientific Names / H.A. Gleason -- The Herbarium in Scientific Research / W.H. Camp -- Arboreta and Botanical Gardens in the Field of Plant Science and Human Welfare / R.J. Seibert -- Part Six. Anatomy and Morphology -- Of the Root / Nehemiah Grew -- Morphology as a Dynamic Science / Edmund W. Sinnott -- On Plants / Aristotle -- Part Seven. Physiology -- Excerpts from Experiments upon Vegetables / John Ingen-Housz -- The Role of the Environment in Plant Growth / F.W. Went -- Our Bridge from the Sun / George W. Gray -- Part Eight. Radiobiology -- Radioactive Carbon / G. Evelyn Hutchinson -- Part Nine. Space Biology -- The Challenge of Space Biology / Wallace O. Fenn -- Part Ten. Lower Plants, Diseases, and Medicine -- Attempt at a Dissertation on the Diseases of Plants / Johann Christian Fabricius -- The Fight with the Fungi / James G. Horsfall -- The Role of Plant Pathology in the Scientific and Social Development of the World / E.C. Stakman -- Male and Female Bread Moulds / as related by A.F. Blakeslee -- Vegetable Jewels at Work / Eugene W. Nelson -- Botany and Medicine / H.W. Youngken Jr. -- Part Eleven. Horticulture -- Horticulture is a Great Green Carpet that Covers the Earth / H.B. Tukey -- Part Twelve. Forestry -- Excerpts from "Enquiry into Plants" / Theophrastus -- Plant Anatomy and its Relation to Forestry / J.W. Severy -- The Tree as an Invention / Charles D. Stewart -- What Are The Most Remarkable Trees? / Henry D. Tiemann -- Tree-rings and History in the Western United States / Edmund Schulman -- Part Thirteen. Conservation -- The Conservation of Wild Flowers / Robert B. Gordon -- What Worth Wilderness? / Paul B. Sears -- Wasteland / Marya Mannes -- Part Fourteen. Paleobotany -- Redwoods Around the Pacific Basin / Ralph W. Chancy -- Origin, Nature and Uses of Coal / Allan Sherman and Allen B. MacMurphy -- Introduction to Pollen Analysis / G. Erdtman -- The Study of Fossil Plants / Anonymous -- Part Fifteen. Cytology -- The Periodic Reduction of the Number of the Chromosomes in the Life-history of Living Organisms / Eduard Strasburger -- The Cell as a Structural Unit / George A. Baitsell -- Cytology : the Study of the Cell / Ralph E. Cleland -- What Is A Gene? / G.W. Beadle -- Cytotaxonomy / Edgar Anderson -- Part Sixteen. Genetics and Plant Breeding -- Genetics In the Service of Man / Bentley Glass -- Lysenko's Experiments / M.B. Crane -- Genetic Transduction / Joshua Lederberg -- The Gifts of Hybridity / W. Cordon Whaley -- Part Seventeen. Evolution -- The Debt of Science to Darwin / Alfred Russel Wallace -- The Darwin-Wallace Centenary / Sir Gavin de Beer -- Development of Plants in Time / Harold C. Bold -- Part Eighteen. Science -- The Role of Pure Science / Ralph W. Gerard -- The Inquiring Mind / L.A. DuBridge -- The Imperfections of Science / Warren Weaver.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library