Volume 1

Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804 / by A. de Humboldt, and A. Bonpland ... Written in French by A. de Humboldt and translated into English by H.M. Williams.

  • Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
1821-1825
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Credit: Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804 / by A. de Humboldt, and A. Bonpland ... Written in French by A. de Humboldt and translated into English by H.M. Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to those which have been already describ- ed; but preferring the connection of facts; which have been long observed, to the knowledge of insulated facts, although they were new, the discovery of an un- known genus seemed to me far less inter- esting than an observation on the geogra- phical relations of the vegetable world, on the migration of the social plants, and the limit. of the height which their differ- ent tribes attain on the flanks of the Cor- dilleras. | The natural sciences are connected ‘by the same ties that link all the phenomena of nature. The classification of the species which we ought to consider as the funda- mental partof botany,and thestudÿ of which is become more attractive and more easy by the introduction of natural methods, is to the geography of plants, what descriptive mineralogy is to the indication of the rocks which constitute ‘the exterior crust of the globe. To comprehend the laws which are observed in the position of these rocks, and determine the age of. their successive for- mations, and their identity in: the ‘most distant regions, the geologist ought to be
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