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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1912 edition by Carl Marhold, Halle. ... Read more

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Chapters: Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, Karl Möbius, Heinz Ellenberg, August Thienemann, Gregor Kraus, Richard Hesse, Wilhelm Knabe, Carl Georg Oscar Drude,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (May 12, 1856 - September 9, 1901) was a botanist and phytogeographer who made major contributions in the fields of histology, ecology and plant geography. Schimper was born in Strasbourg, France, into a family of eminent 19th century scientists. His father Wilhelm Philipp Schimper (1808-1880) was Director of the Natural History Museum in Strassburg, Professor of Geology, and a leading bryologist. His father's cousin was Wilhelm Schimper (1804-1878), prominent collector and explorer in Arabia and North Africa and the naturalist Karl Friedrich Schimper. Andreas studied at the University of Strassburg from 1874 to 1878, acquiring a Ph.D. Thereafter he worked in Lyon and travelled to the United States, staying in Baltimore and Massachusetts. In 1886 he was appointed Extraordinary Professor in Bonn, where he worked largely on cell histology, chromatophores and starch metabolism. He had become interested in phytogeography and ecology, undertaking expeditions to the West Indies and Venezuela in 1882-1883, and to Ceylon, Malaya and Java in 1889-1890, concentrating on mangroves, epiphytes and littoral vegetation. This resulted in his account of the Rhizophoraceae in Engler ... Read more

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Reprint Ed 1967. Vol 1-633p. Vol 2-708p. Vol 3-580p. Vol 4-731p. ... Read more