MOHL, Hugo von.

Vermischte Schriften botanischen Inhalts.

13 lithographed plates (five partly hand colored). viii, 442 pp. Large 4to, cont. marbled boards (extremities a little worn), flat spine gilt. Tübingen: L.F. Fues, 1845. First collected edition; this volume contains a collection of Mohl's papers published between 1830 and 1842, along with additional material. Mohl (1805-72), was the most important of the founders of plant cytology. "With the use of improved microscopes and techniques the broader became the understanding of the basic elements forming living tissue. Von Mohl, professor of botany at Tuebingen, gave the name protoplasm to the mucilaginous material within the plant cell adjacent to the membrane, a term that has grown to connote living substance."­Dibner, Heralds of Science, 32. Very good copy. Evans, Exhibition of First Editions of Epochal Achievements in the History of Science (1934), 87­"The collected earlier works of the most important of the founders of plant cytology." Pritzel 6349­(with a detailed list of the contents). Sachs, History of Botany, pp. 292-310.

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