The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution / from the German of Anton Kerner von Marilaun. Translated and edited by F. W. Oliver, M.A., D.Sc. with the assistance of Marian Busk, B.Sc. and Mary F. Ewart, B. Sc. With about 2000 original woodcut illustrations and sixteen plates in colours.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerner von Marilaun, Anton, 1831-1898.

Contributor:

Oliver, F. W. (Francis Wall), 1864-1951, editor, translator.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Pflanzenleben. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Botany.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 4., XVI leaves of color plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, Henry Holt and Company, [1895-96]

Contents:

Volume I. Introduction; The Living Principle in Plants; Absorption of Nutriment; Conduction of Food; Formation of Organic Matter from the Absorbed Inorganic Food; Metabolism and Transport of Materials; Growth and Construction of Plants; Plant-Forms as Completed Structures

Volume II. Introduction; The Genesis of Plant-Offspring; The History of Species; Classification of Plants Followed in This Work.

Notes:

The 2 parts of each volume paged continuously.

Volume 1 plate I is accompanied by descriptive letterpress on guard sheet; plates II, III, V, VI, IX, XII-XVI have outline diagrams on guard sheets.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Adams copy has note written in ms. on front free endpaper of volume 1, part 1.

Adams copy of volume 1, part 1 has pages [vii]-x disbound.

Adams copy is former library copy with pocket and embossed stamp "University of Pennsylvania Library".

OCLC:

2392601