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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2015
      March 2015
      ISBN:
      9781107741867
      9781108076654
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107741867
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 430 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Plant Sciences, History of Science, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Botanical Reference, General Science
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    Subjects:
    Plant Sciences, History of Science, Life Sciences, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry, Botanical Reference, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
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    Employed early in his career by Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist John Lindley (1799–1865) is best known for his recommendation that Kew Gardens should become a national botanical institution, and for saving the Royal Horticultural Society from financial disaster. As an author, he is best remembered for his works on taxonomy and classification. A partisan of the 'natural' system of Jussieu rather than the Linnaean, Lindley writes, in his preface to this 1830 work, that it was originally created for his own use, to avoid having recourse to 'rare, costly and expensive publications' available only in the libraries of the wealthy. His intention is to give a 'systematic view of the organisation, natural affinities, and geographical distribution of the whole vegetable kingdom', as well as of the uses of plants 'in medicine, the arts, and rural or domestic economy'. The work is important in the history of taxonomy.

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