NOTES ON SOME BOTANICAL WORKS
1953; Edinburgh University Press; Volume: 3; Issue: Part_1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3366/jsbnh.1953.3.part_1.13
ISSN2053-7808
Autores Tópico(s)Plant and animal studies
ResumoOf the ambitiously planned Conspectus Florae Africae, ou Enumeration des Plantes dAfrique (8vo, Bruxelles, Berlin and Paris), by the Belgian botanist Theophile Durand (1855-1912) and the Swiss botanist Hans Schinz (18581941), only one volume was ever completed and published, namely vol. 5, dealing with Monocotyledoneae and Gymnospermae and occupying 977 pages. The title-page is dated MDCCCXCV, but on the verso is the statement: Dates d'impression des differentes parties du volume : Pages 1 a 142 (1892), 143 a 464 (1893), 465 a 957 (1894). This statement merely indicates that certain pages having been printed in a particular year, information published later than that year does not occur in them. From contemporary reviews and references it is evident that vol. 5 was published as a whole in January 1895. Thus the Societe Botanique de France received it as a gift on 11 January 1895 (cf. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 42 : 8 ; 1895), while it is mentioned in J. Bot. (London) 33 : 32 (Jan. 1895) and reviewed in 33 : 87 (March 1895), also in Revue Hort. 67 : 97 (16 Feb. 1895). The only other published part of the Conspectus is vol. 1, pt. 2, a work of 268 pages, dealing with Dicotyledones from Ranunculaceae to Frankeniaceae. The title-page is dated MDCCCXCVIII . The dates d'impression given on its verso are Pages 1 a 160 (Oct. 1895), 161 a 208 (Oct. 1897), 209 a 262 (avril 1898). Hence by April 1898 the printing of the index (pp. 263-268) had not been completed. The work was, however, offered for sale in June 1898 by the Berlin agents, R. Friedlander, in their Nat. Nov. 20 : 353 (second half of June 1898), and this can be taken as its month of publication. It was received by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 20 June 1898 and by the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History), London, on 14 July 1898.
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