On The Physics And Physiology Of Protoplasmic Streaming In Plants Classic Reprint

Author : W. Pfeffer
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ISBN 13 : 9781332305674
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book The Physiology of Plants, Vol. 3 written by W. Pfeffer and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Physiology of Plants, Vol. 3: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of Energy in Plants As in the previous volume a certain condensation has been effected in the present one, in spite of a slight increase in the subject-matter. All additions or interpolations are, however, enclosed in square brackets, except in the sections dealing with tendril-climbers, with protoplasmic streaming, and with the mechanics of water-transport, to which a few explanatory figures have also been added. The appendix gives a summary of the more important literature which has appeared since the issue of the final part of the German edition, and notices of other recent works are interpolated in the foot-notes. In regard to terminology, it has been the aim throughout to avoid the introduction of any new terms into the text of the English edition unless the weightiest reasons existed for their adoption. The present tendency to a redundant and overlapping phraseology in Plant Physiology, if unchecked, will ultimately lead to confusion similar to that existing in Taxonomy before the compilation of the Kew Index. The fact that a worker of the eminence, profundity, and breadth of Charles Darwin added only two or three terms to botanical terminology which could not be understood by reference to a standard English dictionary should make modern workers hesitate to encumber a developing science with more or less temporary pseudo-classical terms of doubtful utility or of none at all. Physieclexis and epitedeioperileipsis would have been poor substitutes for 'Natural Selection' and the 'Survival of the Fittest, ' and the use of such terms would probably have considerably retarded popular acceptance of the Darwinian theory. With the issue of the third and last volume of Professor Pfeffer's monumental work, a new point of departure has been gained by botanical physiology. Only those engaged in research can realize how much labour the preparation of these volumes, with their encyclopaedic compendium of modern literature, must have involved, and the completion of the work at so early a date in spite of a serious and almost fatal illness affords sufficient evidence of the devotion with which the author has pursued the stupendous task set before him to its conclusion. If the results of his labours have lost nothing in assuming their English dress, the task of the translator has been amply fulfilled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.