Hofmeister on cryptogamas 1851
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HOFMEISTER, WILHELM. Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Entfaltung und Fruchtbildung Höherer Kryptogamen (Moose, Farrn, Equisetaceen, Rhizocarpeen und Lycopodiaceen) und der Samenbildung der Confieren. Leipzig (Verlag von Friedrich Hofmeister) 1851.
4:o (about 265x215 mm.). (5), VI-VIII, (1)179, (1) pp. 33 engraved plates (all, minor foxing).
Contemporary brown half leather, worn, faded spine with some damages, redspeckled edges. Minor foxing.
Nissen: BBI, 902, Heralds of Science 34, Waller 11538. First edition.
Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (1824-1877), German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel." He was largely self-taught. Hofmeister is widely credited with discovery of alternation of generations as a general principle in plant life. His proposal that alternation between a spore-bearing generation (sporophyte) and a gamete-bearing generation (gametophyte) constituted a unifying theory of plant evolution that was published in 1851, eight years before Darwin´s On the Origin of Species.(Wikipedia).
Provenance: Collecta Friesia. Elias Fries (1794-1878), famous Swedish mycologist and botanist. His most important work was "Systema mycologicum" published in 1821-32, Thore M. Fries (1832-1913), Robert Fries (1876-1966), Magnus Fries (1917-1987), Robert Fries (b. 1952).
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6263
Date:
2016-06-21