Organography of plants, especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta / by Dr. K. Goebel ... authorized English edited by Isaac Bayley Balfour.

  • Karl Ritter von Goebel
Date:
1900-05
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Credit: Organography of plants, especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta / by Dr. K. Goebel ... authorized English edited by Isaac Bayley Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hofmeister, Sachs, and Herbert Spencer have contributed in an espe- cial degree during the later decades to the advancement of this modern line of study which we may designate Organography. It is yet in its infancy; a wide and little explored, yet promising field lies before us. The greatest difficulty I have found in preparing this work has been in stating the problems correctly in the part which is now issued dealing with the general aspect of the subject; and it is only after some hesitation that I have made the attempt. Although it does not claim to be an exhaustive treatment of the subject from every point of view, yet if it furnishes material for a subsequent treatise on general organography its appearance may be of use, and the more so, if it shows that the same problems are repeated in the most different cycles of affinity. This of course cannot be brought out so clearly in a special account of the different groups. The object of the book may be best gathered from its contents. I may here only point out that it deals with the Archegoniatae and Sperma- phyta alone; such mention as there is of the Thallophyta will be found in the general part, and there only for comparison with reference to these groups. I have not attempted completeness, and this is the case par- ticularly in the statements of opinions different from my own ; these are not referred to further than appeared to be necessary for the immediate purpose in view. The results of many investigations which have not yet been published have been made use of throughout this volume. The authors—Strasburger, Noll, Schenk, Schimper—of the Textbook of Botany which has appeared through the same publishing-house as this book have granted the use of a number of figures ; when these are original they are indicated by ‘ Lehrb.’ Dr. Arthur Weisse has prepared the account of the mechanical hypo- thesis of the position of leaves and he alone is responsible for the state- ments in it. An index to the whole work will appear in the second part; in this first part an extended list of contents is given. K. Goebel. Ambach, September I, 1897.