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Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England
Richard Pulteney
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From Its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnaean System
出版Cambridge University Press, 2011-12-08
主題Biography & Autobiography / Environmentalists & NaturalistsScience / Life Sciences / Botany
ISBN110803733X9781108037334
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=puPAPyykqZoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Richard Pulteney (1730-1801) was a Leicestershire physician whose medical career suffered both from a lack of aristocratic patronage and from his dissenting religious background. However, his lifelong interest in botany and natural history, and particularly his work on the new Linnaean system of botanical classification, led to publications in the Gentleman's Magazine and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1762. His book on Linnaeus (also reissued in this series), first published in 1782, was later considered to be of great significance for the acceptance in England of the Linnaean system, and this two-volume work, published in 1790, is still relevant to the study of the history of botany. Volume 2 includes the development of botanical gardens, famous figures such as Dillenius and Sherard, and the study of botany in Scotland and Ireland.