Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology

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Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, Vol. 10 (2005)
Nicolas Robin & Frank Hellwig
1805: Ueber den Bau und die Art zu keimen, bei einigen Monokotledonen.
Reception of Jaume Saint-Hilaire’s observations on the germination.
1806: Darstellung des natürlichen Pflanzensystems von Jussieu.
Reception of A.-L. de Jussieu’s “méthode naturelle” and transcription
of P. E. Ventenat’s “tableau de la valeur des caractères”; Features of the
embryo taken to be most important in classification.
1808: System der Botanik.
Presentation of 24 natural families; Subordination of several natural
families; First fusion of J. W. von Goethe’s idea of the metamorphosis
of plants with the natural method.
1811: Analyse der Frucht des Saamenkorns von Louis-Claude Richard.
For the first time in Germany diffusion of L.-Cl. Richard’s outlines
of a natural classification.
1812: Catalogus plantarum quae in hortis ducalibus botanico
Jenensi et Belvederensi coluntur.
Arrangement of the plants in 106 natural families.
1817: Grundzüge einer Naturgeschichte.
147 recognised natural families, some subordinated to others.
1819: Uebersicht der Naturgeschichte.
Educational presentation of 33 natural “associations”.
1824: Wörterbuch der botanischen Kunstsprache.
Deletion of taxonomic names of the Linnean classification;
Reception of A.-P. de Candolle’s glossologie.
1827: Lehrbuch der Botanik.
Absence or presence of the embryo as well as the features of this
organ taken to be the most important taxonomic characteristic.
Figure 5: Fr. S. Voigt’s treatment of the natural system.