Evaluated Historical Monographs in the Botanical Sciences, 1860 -1969
Second Part - Authors D-G

1    Darlington, Cyril D. Chromosome Botany. London; Allen & Unwin, 1956. 186p. (3d rev. ed. with title: Chromosome Botany and the Origins of Cultivated Plants. London; Allen & Unwin, and New York; Hafner Press, 1973. 237p.)

1    Darlington, Cyril D. The Evolution of Genetic Systems. Cambridge, Eng.; Cambridge University Press, 1939. 149p. (2d rev. ed., Edingburgh; Oliver and Boyd, 1958. 265p.)

1    Darlington, Cyril D. Recent Advances in Cytology. Philadelphia; P. Blakiston's Son, 1932. 599p. (2d ed., London; J. & A. Churchill. 1937. 671p.; Reprint. with title: Cytology, 1965. 768p.)

1    Darlington, Cyril D. and E. K. Janaki Ammal. Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants. London; Allen & Unwin, 1945. 397p. (New ed., with title: Chromosome Atlas of Flowering Plants, by C. D. Darlington and A. P. Wylie. New York; Macmillan, 1956. 519p.)

2    Darlington, Cyril D. and K. Mather. The Elements of Genetics. London; Allen & Unwin, and New York; Macmillan, 1949. 446p. (Reprint. New York; Schocken Books, 1969. 446p.)

1    Darrah, William C. Principles of Paleobotany. Leiden; Chronica Botanica Co., 1939. 239p. (A New Series of Plant Science Books v. 3) (2d ed., New York; Ronald Press Co., 1960. 295p.)

2    Darrah, William C. Textbook of Paleobotany. New York; Appleton-Centry, 1939. 441p.

1    Darwin, Charles. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. New York; D. Appleton, 1877. 352p. (New York; D. Appleton, 1903. 351p.)

1    Darwin, Charles. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. London; J. Murray, 1876. 482p. (2d ed. London; J. Murray 1878, 487p.; Reprint. New York; New York University Press, and London; W. Pickering, 1989. 405p.) (3d ed., London; J. Murray, 1891. 487p.)

1    Darwin, Charles. Insectivorous Plants. London; John Murray, 1875. 462p. (2d ed., rev. by Francis Darwin. London; John Murray, 1888. 377p.; Reissued with original pagination, London; W. Pickering, 1989. 345p.) (Reprint of original ed., New York; AMS Press, 1972. 462p.)

1    Darwin, Charles. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Including an Autobiographical Chapter, edited by his son, Francis Darwin. New York; D. Appleton and Co., 1887. 2 vols. (London; John Murray, 1987. 3 vols.; Reprint New York; Johnson Reprint Corp., 1969. 3 vols.)

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1    Darwin, Charles. The Power of Movement in Plants. Assisted by Francis Darwin. New York; D. Appleton, 1881. 592p. (Reprint. New York; Da Capo, 1966. 592p.) (Originally issued, London; John Murray, 1880. 592p.; Reissued with original pagination, 1989. 436p.)

1    Daubenmire, Rexford F. Plants and Environment: A Textbook of Plant Autoecology. New York; Wiley, 1947. 424p. (3d ed., 1974, 422p.) (Adaptation with title: Ecology of Tropical Plants, by Margaret Vickery and chapter by John Hall. Chichester, Eng. and New York; Wiley, 1984.)

2    Davis, Gwenda L. Systematic Embryology of the Angiosperms. New York; Wiley, 1966. 528p.

2    Davy de Virville, Adrien. Histoire de la Botanique en France. Paris; Société d'Édition d'Enseignement Supérieur, 1954. 394p.

2    de Bary, A. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns. Translated and annotated by F. O. Bower and D. H. Scott. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1884. 659p. (Original publ. as vol. 3 of Handbuch der Physiologischen Botanik, edited by Wilhelm Hofmeister, with title: Vergleichende Anatomie der Vegetationsorgane der Phanerogamen und Farne. Leipzig; W. Englemann, 1877. 663p.)

2    De Beer, Gavin. Embryology and Evolution. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1930. 116p. (3d ed. with title: Embryos and Ancestors. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1958. 197p.)

1    de Gubernatis, Angelo. La Mythologie des Plantes; Ou, les Légendes du Règne Végétal. Paris; C. Reinwald, 1878-82. 2 vols. (Reprint. New York; Arno Press, 1978. 2 vols.)

1    de Vries, Hugo. The Mutation Theory: Experiments and Observations on the Origin of Species in the Vegetable Kingdom. Translated from the German by J. B. Farmer and A. D. Darbishire. Chicago; The Open Court Publishing Co., 1909-1910. 2 vols. (Originally publ. as Die Mutationstheorie. Leipzig; Veit & Co., 1901-1903. 2 vols.) (2d ed. with title: Species and Varieties. Chicago; Open Court, 19--)

1    Delevoryas, Theodore. Morphology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. New York; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. 189p.

2    Deutsche Zentral-Afrika-Expedition, 2d, 1910-11. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse . . . Leipzig; Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1922. 2 vols.

1    Diels, Ludwig. Pflanzengeographie. Leipzig; G. J. Goschen, 1908. 163p. (5th ed. revised by Fritz Mattick. Berlin; W. de Gruyter, 1958. 194p.)

1    Dixon, Henry H. Transpiration and the Ascent of Sap in Plants. London; Macmillan, 1914. 216p.

1    Dobzhansky, Theodosius G. Genetics and the Origin of Species. New York; Columbia University Press, 1937. 364p. (Columbia biological series no. 11) (3d ed., rev. 1951. 364p.)

1    Dobzhansky, Theodosius G. Genetics of the Evolutionary Process. New York; Columbia University Press, 1970. 505p.

1    Douglass, Andrew E. Climatic Cycles and Tree-Growth: A Study of the Annual Rings of Trees in Relation to Climate and Solar Activity. Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919-1928. 2 vols.

2    Dowson, W. J. Manual of Bacterial Plant Diseases. London; A. and C. Black, 1949. 183p. (2d ed. with title Plant Diseases Due to Bacteria. Cambridge, Eng.; Cambridge University Press, 1957. 231p.)

2    Drude, Oscar. Die Ekologie der Pflanzen. Braunschweig, Germany; F. Vieweg, 1913. 308p.

2    Drude, Oscar. Handbuch der Pflanzengeographie. Stuttgart; J. Engelhorn, 1890. 582p.

1    Duggar, Benjamin M., ed. Biological Effects of Radiation; Mechanism and Measurement of Radiation, Applications in Biology, Photochemical Reactions, Effects of Radiant Energy on Organisms and Organic Products. Edited by Benjamin M. Duggar with the cooperation of Janet Howell Clark, Kenneth S. Cole, Farrington Daniels and others. New York and London; McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1936. 2 vols.

1    Dunn, Leslie C. A Short History of Genetics; The Development of Some of the Main Lines of Thought. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1965. 261p.

1    Eames, Arthur J. Morphology of Vascular Plants, Lower Groups. New York and London; McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1936. 433p.

1    Eames, Arthur J. Morphology of the Angiosperms. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1961. 518p.

1    Eames, Arthur J. and Laurence H. MacDaniels. An Introduction to Plant Anatomy. 1st ed. New York; McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1925. 364p. (2d ed., 1947. 427p.; Reprint. Huntington, N.Y.; R. E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1977. 427p.)

2    Emberger, Louis. Les Plantes Fossiles dans leurs Rapports avec les Végétaux Vivants (Éléments de Paléobotanique et de Morphologie Comparée). Paris; Masson et Cie, 1944. 492p. (2d ed., 1968. 759p.)

2    Engelmann, George. The Botanical Works of the Late George Engelmann, collected for Henry Shaw, esq. Edited by William Trelease and Asa Gray. Cambridge, Mass.; J. Wilson and Son, 1887. 548p.

1    Engler, Adolf. Syllabus der Vorlesungen Ÿber Specielle und Medicinisch-Pharmaceutische Botanik. Eine Uebersicht Ÿber das Gesammte Pflanzensystem mit BerŸcksichtigung der Medicinal und Nutzpflanzen. Berlin; GebrŸder Borntraeger, 1892. 184p. (13th ed. with title: A. Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien mit Besonderer BerŸcksichtigung der Nutzpflanzen Nebst Einer Übersicht über die Florenreiche und Florengebiete der Erde, edited by Johannes Gerloff and Joself Poelt. Berlin; Borntraeger, 1983. 5 vols.)

1    Engler, Adolf and K. Prantl. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien nebst ihren Gattungen und Wichtigeren Arten Insbesondere den Nutzpflanzen, unter Mitwirkung Zahlreicher Hervorragender Fachgelehrten Begründet von A. Engler und K. Prantl. Leipzig, Germany; W. Engelmann, 1887-1909. 4 vols. in 17 (Orig. issued in fascicles; 2d rev. ed. edited by A. Engler. Leipzig, Germany; W. Engelmann, and Berlin; Dunker and Humboldt, 1924-1960. 26 vols.)

2    Erdtman, G. Handbook of Palynology: Morphology, Taxonomy, Ecology; An Introduction to the Study of Pollen Grains and Spores. Copenhagen; Munksgaard and New York; Hafner, 1969. 486p.

1    Erdtman, G. An Introduction to Pollen Analysis. Waltham, Mass.; Chronica Botanica Company, 1943. 239p. (A New series of plant science books Vol. XII) (Reprint. 1954. 239p.)

1    Erdtman, Gunnar. Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy: An Introduction to Palynology. New York; Hafner Pub. Co., 1966-. (Reprinted, Stockholm; Almqvist and Wiksell and Waltham, Mass.; Chronica Botanica Co., 1952-71. 4 vols.)

1    Esau, Katherine. Anatomy of Seed Plants. New York; Wiley, 1960. 376p. (2d ed., 1977. 550p.)

1    Esau, Katherine. The Phloem. Berlin; GebrŸder Borntraeger, 1969. 505p. (Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie (1956) Bd. 5, Teil 2)

1    Esau, Katherine. Plant Anatomy. New York; Wiley, 1953. 735p. (2d ed., 1965. 767p.)

1    Esau, Katherine. Plants, Viruses and Insects. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard University Press, 1961. 110p. (John M. Prather Lectures v. 1960)

1    Esau, Katherine. Vascular Differentiation in Plants. New York; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. 160p.

2    Esau, Katherine. Viruses in Plant Hosts: Form, Distribution, and Pathologic Effects. Madison, Wisc.; University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. 225p.

1    Evans, L. T., ed. The Induction of Flowering Plants; Some Case Histories. Ithaca, N.Y.; Cornell University Press, and South Melbourne, Victoria; Macmillan of Australia, 1969. 488p.

2    Eyre, S. R. Vegetation and Soils: A World Picture. London; E. Arnold, 1963. 324p. (2d ed., 1968. 328p.)

2    Faegri, Knut and L. van der Pijl. The Principles of Pollination Ecology. Toronto and New York; Pergamon Press, 1966. 243p. (3d rev. ed., Oxford and New York; Pergamon Press, 1979. 244p.)

2    Fairchild, David G. Exploring for Plants. New York; Macmillan Co., 1930. 591p.

2    Fairchild, David G. The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer. New York and London; C. Scribner's Sons, 1938. 494p.

2    Falconer, Douglas S. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics. Edinburgh; Oliver and Boyd, 1960. 365p. (Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, Eng.; Longman, Scientific & Technical, and New York; Wiley, 1989. 438p.)

2    Fischer, Albert. Tissue Culture. Studies in Experimental Morphology and General Physiology of Tissues Cells in Vitro. Copenhagen; Levin & Munksgaard, 1925. 310p.

2    Fischer, Hermann. Mittelalterliche Pflanzenkunde. MŸnchen; MŸnchner Drucke, 1929. 326p. (Reprint. Hildesheim, Germany; G. Olms, 1967. 326p.)

1    Fisher, Ronald A. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1930. 272p. (2d rev. ed., New York; Dover Publications, 1958. 291p.)

2    Florin, R. Studien über die Cycadales des Mesozoikums. Stockholm; Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 1933. 134p. (K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar no. 12)

2    Folkard, R. Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyric. London; S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1884. 610p. (2d ed., London; Sampson, Low, Marston, 1892. 610p.)

2    Ford, Edmund B. Genetic Polymorphism. London; Faber & Faber, 1965. 101p.

1    Foster, Adriance S. Practical Plant Anatomy. New York; D. Van Nostrand, 1942. 228p. (Earlier mimeograph ed. of 66 leaves; St. Louis; John S. Swift Co., 1937) (2d. ed. 1949. 228p.)

1    Foster, Adriance S. and Ernest M. Gifford. Comparative Morphology of Vascular Plants. San Francisco; W. H. Freeman, 1959. 555p. (3d rev. ed. with title: Morphology and Evolution of Vascular Plants by Ernest M. Gifford and Adriance S. Foster. New York; W. H. Freeman, 1988. 626p.)

2    Fraenkel-Conrat, Heinz. Design and Function at the Threshold of Life: The Viruses. New York; Academic Press, 1962. 117p.

2    Freudenberg, Karl and A. C. Meish. Constitution and Biosynthesis of Lignin. Berlin and New York; Springer, 1968. 129p.

1    Frey-Wyssling, Albert. The Plant Cell Wall. Berlin; Borntraeger, 1976. 294p. (Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie (1956) Bd. 3, T. 4) (Original publ. as part I. of Stoffausscheidung der Hoheren Pflanzen. Berlin; J. Springer, 1935. 378p.; New ed. with title: Die Pflanzliche Zellwand. Berlin; Springer, 1959. 367p.) (Within Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie series two earlier works by different authors comprise earlier editions on the same topic: Die Zellmembran, by C. van Wisselingh. Berlin, Borntraeger, 1925. 264p.; and The Plant Cell-Wall by P. A. Roelofsen. Berlin, Borntraeger, 1959. 335p.)

1    Frey-Wyssling, Albert. Submicroscopic Morphology of Protoplasm and Its Derivatives. Translated by J. J. Hermans and M. Hollander. New York; Elsevier, 1948. 255p. (Original publ. as Submikroskopische Morpholgie des Protoplasmas und Seiner Derivate. Berlin; GebrŸder Borntraeger, 1938. 317p.) (2d English ed. with title: Submicroscopic Morphology of Protoplasm. Translated by M. Hollander. Amsterdam and Houston; Elsevier Pub. Co., 1953. 411p.)

1    Frey-Wyssling, Albert and K. Muhlethaler. Ultrastructural Plant Cytology. An extension of a part of the 2d edition of Submicroscopic Morphology of Protoplasm...1953, by A. Frey Wyssling. Amsterdam and New York; Elsevier Pub. Co., 1965. 377p.

2    Gage, Simon Henry. Notes on Microscopical Methods. Ithaca, N.Y.; Andrus & Church, 1886-1887. 32p. (17th ed. with title: The Microscope. Ithaca, N.Y.; Comstock Publishing Company, 1941. 617p.)

2    Garrett, Stephen D. Biology of Root-Infecting Fungi. Cambridge, Eng.; Cambridge University Press, 1956. 292p.

2    Garrett, Stephen D. Root Disease Fungi; A Treatise on the Epidemiology of Soilborne Disease in Crop Plants, and a First Exposition of the Principle of Root Disease Control. Waltham, Mass.; Chronica Botanica, 1944. 177p.

1    Gause, G. F. The Struggle for Existence. Baltimore, Md.; The Williams & Wilkins Co., 1934. 163p. (Reprint. New York; Dover Publications, 1971. 163p.)

2    Gaussen, Henri. Géographie des Plantes. Paris; A. Colin, 1933. 222p. (Collection Arman Colin. Section de Geographie no. 152) (2d ed., 1954. 223p.) (Available in Microform)

1    Goebel, Karl. Einleitung in die Experimentelle Morphologie der Pflanzen. Leipzig and Berlin; B. G. Teubner, 1908. 260p.

1    Goebel, Karl. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta. Authorized English ed. by Isaac Bayley Balfour ed. Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1900-05. 2 vols. (Original publ. as Organographie der Pflanzen, Insbesondere der Archegoniaten und Samenpflanzen. Jena, Germany; G. Fischer, 1898-1901. 2 vols.; and, 1928-1933. 3 vols.) (Reprint, New York; Hafner Pub. Co., 1969.)

1    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Goethe's Botany; The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790) and Tabler's Ode to Nature (1782). Translated by Agnes Arbert. Waltham, Mass.; Chronica Botanica, 1946. 124p. (Chronica Botanica v. 10, no. 2) (Original of The Metamorphosis publ.: as Versuch die Metamorphoses der Pflanzen zu ErklŠren. Gotha, Germany; Ettingersche Buchhandlung, 1790.; Facsimile reprint with annotations by Dorothea Kuhn, Weinheim; Acta Humaniora, 1984. 149p.; 1790 ed. available in Microform) (Ode to Nature variously ascribed to Tabler and to Goethe)

1    Goldschmidt, Richard B. The Material Basis of Evolution. New Haven, Conn.; Yale University Press, 1940. 436p. (Reprint., 1982. 436p.) (Available in Microform.)

1    Goldschmidt, Richard B. Physiological Genetics. New York; McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1938. 375p. (Reprint, New York; Garland, 1988. 375p.) (Available in Microform)

1    Goldschmidt, Richard B. Theoretical Genetics. Berkeley, Calif.; University of California Press, 1955. 563p.

2    Good, Ronald. The Geography of the Flowering Plants. London and New York; Longmans, Green and Co.; 1947. 403p. (4th ed. London; Longman, 1974. 557p.)

2    Grant, Verne. The Architecture of the Germplasm. New York; Wiley, 1964. 236p.

2    Grant, Verne. The Origin of Adaptations. New York; Columbia University Press, 1963. 606p.

1    Gray, Asa. Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism. New York; D. Appleton and Company, 1876. 396p. (New ed. edited by A. Hunter Dupree. Cambridge; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. 327p.) (Original ed. available in Microform)

1    Gray, Asa. Elements of Botany. New York; G. & C. Carvill & Co., 1836. 428p. (6th ed. with title: Structural Botany, or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To Which is Added the Principles of Taxonomy and Phytography and a Glossary of Botanical Terms. New York; American Book Co., 1879. 442p.; Reprint. 1907. 442p.)

1    Gray, Asa. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology. New York; Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1868. 236p. (Rev. ed. with title: The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools. New York; Ivison, Blakeman, 1887. 226p.)

1    Gray, Asa. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray, Selected by Charles Sprague. Boston and New York; Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1889. 2 vols.

1    Greene, Edward Lee. Landmarks of Botanical History; A Study of Certain Epochs in the Development of the Science of Botany. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institute, 1909. 329p. (Later ed. edited by Frank N. Egerton. Stanford, Calif.; Stanford Univerity Press, 1983. 2 vols.; Vol. 1 comprises reprint of 1909 ed.; Vol. 2 contains text never before published.) (1909 ed. available in Microform)

2    Greig-Smith, Peter. Quantitative Plant Ecology. New York; Academic Press, and London; Butterworths Scientific Publications, 1957. 198p. (3rd ed. Berkeley, Calif.; University of California Press, 1983. 359p.)

1    Grisebach, August. Die Vegetation der Erde, Nach ihrer Klimatischen Anordnung. Ein Abriss der Vergleichenden Geographie der Pflanzen. Leipzig; W. Engelmann, 1872. 2 vols. (2d ed., 1884-85. 2 vols.)

1    Guilliermond, Alexandre. The Cytoplasm of the Plant Cell. Translated by Lenette Rogers Atkinson from the Unpublished French Manuscript. Waltham, Mass.; Chronica Botanica Company, 1941. 247p.

2    Gunther, Robert T. Early British Botanists and Their Gardens: Based on Unpublished Writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and Others. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1922. 417p. (Reprint. New York; Kraus Reprint Co., 1971. 417p.)

1    Gustafsson, Ake. Apomixis in Higher Plants. Lund; C. W. K. Gleerup, 1946-1947. 3 vols.

2    Guttenberg, Hermann von. Der Primëre Bau der Angiospermenwurzel. Berlin; GebrŸder Borntraeger, 1940. 369p. (Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie 2. Abt. 3. Tl: Samenpflanzen, Bd. 8, Lfg. 39) (2d ed. publ. with same title as Bd. 8, T. 5 of Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie series. 1968. 472p.)

2    Guttenberg, Hermann von. Der Primëre Bau der Gymnospermenwurzel. Berlin; GebrŸder Borntraeger, 1941. 71p. (Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie 2, T. 3)

2    Guttenberg, Hermann von. Die Bewegungsgewebe. Berlin; GebrŸder Borntraeger, 1926. 289p. (Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie 5, T. 5) (2d ed. with title: Bewegungsgewebe und Perzeptionsorgane. Berlin; GebrŸder Borntraeger, 1971. 332p.)

2    Guttenberg, Hermann von. Grundzüge der Histogenese H=ëherer Pflanzen. Berlin; Borntraeger, 1960-1961. 2 vols. (Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie (1956) Bd. 8, T. 3-4)

2    Guttenberg, Hermann von. Histogenese der Pteridophyten. Berlin; Borntraeger, 1966. 312p. (Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie 7, T. 2)

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