"A Handbook of Systematic Botany" by Eugenius Warming is a scientific text from the late 1800s that acts as a guide to classifying plants and understanding their forms, especially how the plant kingdom is organized. The book has many pictures and provides a close reading of how plants relate to each other through taxonomy. Its beginning explains the translation from Danish, expresses gratitude to those who helped, and adds notes for clarity. It presents the book's structure, including categories like Thallophyta, which covers slime-fungi, algae, and fungi. The book focuses on Warming's method for classifying plants, emphasizing their physical form, growth, and evolutionary history, setting the stage for serious study of plants and their categorization.
A handbook of systematic botany
By Eugenius Warming
Explore the intricate world of plant classification with detailed illustrations and a systematic approach to understanding botanical relationships and evolutionary history.
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About the AuthorJohannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology. Warming wrote the first textbook (1895) on plant ecology, taught the first university course in ecology and gave the concept its meaning and content.
Scholar R. J. Goodland wrote in 1975: “If one individual can be singled out to be honoured as the founder of ecology, Warming should gain precedence”.
Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology. Warming wrote the first textbook (1895) on plant ecology, taught the first university course in ecology and gave the concept its meaning and content. Scholar R. J. Goodland wrote in 1975: “If one individual can be singled out to be honoured as the founder of ecology, Warming should gain precedence”.
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