1805 HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859); BONPLAND, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (1773 – 1858)
Essai sur la géographie des plantes; accompagné d’un tableau physique des régions équinoxiales.
One of the first works on the geographical distribution of plants. Humboldt was a pioneer student of geographical–ecological plant associations. The sheets of this work were reissued as Vol. I of the authors' Voyage a…
GMN 145.55 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2459
1822 SCHOUW, Joakim Frederik (1789 – 1852)
Grundtræk til en almindelig Plantegeographie.
The first atlas of the geography of plants, including distribution maps for the eastern and western hemisphere. Schouw translated the work into German and had the translation published the following year: Grundzüge ei…
GMN 7695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9867
1832 WATSON, Hewett Cottrell (1804 – 1881)
Outlines of the geographical distribution of British plants; belonging to the division of vasculares or cotyledones.
“Watson's major botanical endeavour was producing several versions of a work first entitled Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of British Plants (1832); it reached its most extensive form as Cybele Britannica, …
GMN 11642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13843
1843 HINDS, Richard Brinsley (1811 – 1846)
The regions of vegetation; being an analysis of the distribution of vegetable forms over the surface of the globe in connexion with climate and physical agents.
Digital facsimile of the copy presented by Hinds to Charles Darwin, with Darwin's annotations, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This work also appeared as a section of Edward Belcher's Narrative of…
GMN 9168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11347
1855 CANDOLLE, Alphonse Pyramus de (1806 – 1893)
Géographie botanique raisonnée ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l'époque actuelle. 2 vols.
This work work organized and systematized the huge mass of data being collected by the numerous scientific expeditions of the time to explain the geographical distribution of plants. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica…
GMN 11884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14088
1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).
The first important botanical work by a supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Hooker, a botanist and plant geographer, had been a close friend of Darwin for many years, and was aware of Darwi…
GMN 7446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9618
1878 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
Tropical nature and other essays.
"Wallace's extensive work in biogeography made him aware of the impact of human activities on the natural world. In Tropical Nature and Other Essays (1878), he warned about the dangers of deforestation and soil erosio…
GMN 9174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11353
1898 SCHIMPER, Andreas Franz Wilhelm (1856 – 1901)
Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.
In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…
GMN 8536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10713
1908 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913); SPRUCE, Richard (1817 – 1893)
Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9616
