| Catalogue Des Plantes Indigènes Des Pyrénées Et Du Bas Languedoc: Avec Des Notes Et Observations Sur Les Espèces Nouvelles Ou Peu Connues Contributor(s): Bentham, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108037372 ISBN-13: 9781108037372 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $33.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Botany - History |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Life Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.39 lbs) 134 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: English botanist George Bentham (1800-84) is most famous as the author of the popular Handbook of the British Flora (1858), which ran into many editions. A distinguished scientist, Bentham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862, and served as President of the Linnean Society of London for thirteen years (1861-74). Originally published in 1826, this catalogue of plants from the Pyr n es region of France is Bentham's second work. Inspired by French botanist de Candolle (1778-1841) as well as by the analytical methods of his uncle, the famous philosopher Jeremy Bentham, this book is a systematic overview of the plants found between Figueras, in the north of Spain, and Bordeaux, Narbonne and Montpellier in France. The book opens with the story of Bentham's 1825 three-month trip through the Pyrenees region, with botanist G. A. Walker Arnott (1799-1868), on which the Catalogue is based. |