|
Find more facts and information on our topic page about
Adolf Engler
|
Adolf Engler
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Adolf Engler , 1844-1930, German botanist. He emphasized the importance of geological history in the study of plant geography, and worked out an influential system of plant classification. A professor at the Univ. of Berlin and director of the botanical gardens (1889-1921) there, he founded and edited (from 1881) the periodical Botanische Jahrbücher. He wrote several works on plant geography and taxonomy, and collaborated with Karl Prantl on the early volumes of Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (32 vol. in 17, 1887-1909) and edited the early volumes of Das Pflanzenreich. The Engler and Prantl system of flowering plant classification was the principal one in use until the 1970s.
Find more facts and information related to the .
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
(book reviews)
; ...of these topics in Bahia. This book summarises his life's work. The book is in three parts, the first examining Yoruba plant classification and main beliefs regarding illness and other evils and how to deal with them. The second part (comprising 80 per cent...
Read more
|
|
Education Goes Outdoors
; ...areas: language, math, art, social studies and science - about 80 outdoor activities in all. Activities as diverse as plant classification, compass use, weaving and flower study are wellorganized and teacherfriendly. The book's beginning section is a gem...
Read more
|
|
(book review)
; ...Duncan Baird Publishers, 1998. Illus. 17.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1 900131 86 2 These beautiful coffee-table books are the early volumes in DBP's Life, Myth and Art series. Each one is lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs and decorative designs...
Read more
|
|
Royals face frost delay.(Jersey Royal )(potato crop hit by weather)(Brief article)
; ...three quarters of the crop is planted but the weather over forthcoming weeks will determine the development of the crop. Early volumes of Jersey Royals are crucial to growers' incomes as they command a significant premium before greater quantities arrive...
Read more
|
|
Winter gardening talks
; ...gardening programme. A former president of the Canterbury Botanical Society, Philipa Horn, will take three sessions on plant classification, structures, and form. Canterbury Regional Council biosecurity officer and gardener John Thacker will talk on botanical...
Read more
|
|
|
Booked; [THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY HOME BAKED]
; ...fare. Home Baked has reminded me, however, of the ease and reliability of those dishes and I've dusted off some of those early volumes. Time to bake may be a precious commodity, but this book is a reminder that it doesn't have to be complicated to be good...
Read more
|
|
Hardy Rhododendron Species: A Guide to Identification.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
; ...reference offers keys to identifying 295 Rhododendron species in cultivation. After introducing the nature and history of plant classification, and the structure and current classification of the genus, Cullen (Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, Cambridge, UK...
Read more
|
|
|
Exquisite spuds Smile on Tesco.(Market edge: FRESH PRODUCE)(Exquisa and Smile potato varieties are sold at Tesco PLC.)(Brief Article)
; ...has a buttery flavour, soft texture, creamy skin and grows in a long, hooked shape. Availability will be year-round, with early volumes running at around 25 tonnes a week. It will initially be on sale in 100 of Tesco's biggest stores with a roll-out to more...
Read more
|
|
Wednesday Book: No sex, please, we're disturbed and power-hungry A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott (Lutterworth Press, pounds 15)
; CLIVE JAMES, in one of his early volumes of autobiography, outlines his pet theory of revolving virginity, developed to cope with the few highs and many lows of his juvenile...
Read more
|
|
Drum-Buffer-Rope for Lower Inventory.
; ...industries. A system known as V/A/T plant classification provides a useful structure for...are V-, A-, and T-plants? V/A/T plant classification was developed primarily by Eli Goldratt...to the development of three basic plant classification categories: V-plants, A-plants...
Read more
|
For more facts and information,
see all related premium articles
Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses
|
Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf
Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf (1844–1930) A German taxonomist and biogeographer who helped to develop a system for classifying plant families and genera. In 1910 he began a collaboration with C. G. O. Drude to produce Die Vegetation der Erde . Engler was professor at the museum and botanical gardens ...
Read more
|
|
August Wilhelm Eichler
, 1839-87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant classification which, after later work on it by Adolf Engler, was widely adopted by European botanists. He wrote a syllabus of pharmaceutical botany.
Read more
|
