An elementary course of botany : structural, physiological and systematic / by Arthur Henfrey.

  • Arthur Henfrey
Date:
1870
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    EDITOR'S PEEP ACE. The Editor's duty in superintending the publication of this volume was clear, though its execution has proved onerous. To revise the whole work, to eliminate passages which the progress of Bota- nical Science had rendered obsolete, to insert new material, and to endeavour, as far as circumstances would allow, to render the book as good an exponent of the state of botany at the present time as the previous edition was at the date of its publication,—such was the course laid down to be followed. To this end Professor Hen- frey's text has been left intact in all cases where this could be done without compromising its value. In particular those portions which have special interest as embodying the results of the lamented author's original researches have been carefully retained. Little alteration and comparatively slight additions have been needed in the chapters relating to Morphology and Physiological Anatomy. The latter department especially was so thoroughly investigated by the author that it is no matter for wonder, though assuredly it is for congratulation, that modifications, relatively unimportant, were all that appeared necessary in the portion of the work devoted to this subject. Professor Henfrey in his lifetime was the almost solitary representative in this country of Physiological Anatomy. Certainly no Englishman has of late years earned in this special department so well founded a reputation, and great has been the loss to English science from his premature decease. In other sections the changes have necessarily been greater. The systematic description of the Natural Orders has been condensed, and to some extent recast, especially as regards the Cryptogamia. In his knowledge of this latter class of plants the author was also pre- eminent ; but the additions to this department of Botanical science a3
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