Guide to Standard Floras of the World Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the first edition
- Prologue to the second edition
- Acknowledgments for the first edition
- Acknowledgments for the second edition
- I General introduction
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions
- Division 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
- Division 1: North America (north of Mexico)
- Division 2: Middle America
- Division 3: South America
- Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
- Division 5: Africa
- Division 6: Europe
- Division 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
- Division 8: Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia
- Division 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited
- Addenda in proof
- Geographical index
- Author index
Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
from II - Systematic bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the first edition
- Prologue to the second edition
- Acknowledgments for the first edition
- Acknowledgments for the second edition
- I General introduction
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions
- Division 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
- Division 1: North America (north of Mexico)
- Division 2: Middle America
- Division 3: South America
- Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
- Division 5: Africa
- Division 6: Europe
- Division 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
- Division 8: Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia
- Division 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited
- Addenda in proof
- Geographical index
- Author index
Summary
I always think that some of the other governments might have followed the example of yours. Out of the £250 I get, I have to pay £100 down to Reeve, … [and] I have much to pay in carriage of specimens from the continent, in postage and various minor expenses attending in the work, so that on the whole I scarcely clear £125 per volume, which is very poor pay for a 12-month hard work, after being nearly 40 years in the trade.
Bentham to Mueller on Flora australiensis, 24 November 1864; quoted from Daley, The history of Flora australiensis, IV. Victorian Naturalist44: 153 (1927).It will afford me very sincere pleasure to see a beginning made [to a flora of Mauritius] during my residence here, as has been the case in regard to the two last colonies [Jamaica and Victoria] over which I have presided.
Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Mauritius, to the Royal Society of Mauritius, January 1864; quoted from Thistleton-Dyer, Botanical survey of the Empire, in Bull. Misc. Inform. (Kew) 1905: 36 (1906). [Barkly, earlier a Governor of Victoria and supporter there of Mueller, was later to accomplish the same in Cape Colony, his next charge.]Within this division are grouped some fragments of ancient Gondwanaland not readily placed elsewhere: New Zealand and surrounding islands (Region (Superregion) 41); the Australian continent with Tasmania (Superregion 42–45); and ‘Malagassia’ for the islands of the southwest Indian Ocean, including Madagascar (Superregion 46–49).
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- Guide to Standard Floras of the WorldAn Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas, pp. 381 - 433Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001