Botany: The Science of Plant Life

Botany: The Science of Plant Life

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Author: Taylor, Norman,1883-1967
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Language: English
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Botany: The Science of Plant Life

Botany: The Science of Plant Life

$19.99 $9.99

Botany: The Science of Plant Life

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Taylor, Norman,1883-1967
Format: eBook
Language: English

Botany: The Science of Plant Life

THIS book is for those who want some general knowledge of the plant world, without necessarily caring for the technical details upon which such knowledge is based. If it leaves the reader with an impulse to follow the subject further than has been possible here, it will have more than fulfilled its mission. Throughout the book, it has often been convenient to refer to plants or their behavior in terms implying reasoning faculties. Of course, plants are never reasoning things, reasonable as many of their actions appear to be, and to ascribe such qualities to them is to saddle them with attributes perfectly foreign to the plant world. But the description of them in the terms of our everyday speech, the translation of plant behavior into the current conceptions of mankind, does so fix these in our minds that they cease to be among those interesting things that nearly everyone forgets. I have followed this method deliberately, understanding perfectly the objections to it, but believing, with the late C. E. Bessey, that in popular books it is an admirable way of looking at some botanical things. All of the half-tone illustrations, except two, are from the photographic collections of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and I am under the greatest obligation to the director of that institution for permission to publish them here. The illustration of the living and fossil alg has been taken from Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborns Origin and Evolution of Life, with his kind permission. The illustration of desert vegetation is from a photograph by the late E. L. Morris, and kindly loaned from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. All the line cuts in the text are from drawings made specially for this book by my wife, Bertha Fanning Taylor. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 49211
Author: Taylor, Norman
Release Date: Jun 14, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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