Catalogue Des Plantes Indigènes Des Pyrénées Et Du Bas Languedoc: Avec Des Notes Et Observations Sur Les Espèces Nouvelles Ou Peu Connues

ISBN-13: 9781108037372 / Francuski / Miękka / 2011 / 134 str.

George Bentham

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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 Pyrenees 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."