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
- 1 An analytical–synthetic systematic bibliography of ‘standard’ floras: scope, sources and structure
- 2 The evolution of floras
- 3 Floras at the end of the twentieth century: philosophy, progress and prospects
- References
- II Systematic bibliography
- 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
1 - An analytical–synthetic systematic bibliography of ‘standard’ floras: scope, sources and structure
from I - General introduction
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
- 1 An analytical–synthetic systematic bibliography of ‘standard’ floras: scope, sources and structure
- 2 The evolution of floras
- 3 Floras at the end of the twentieth century: philosophy, progress and prospects
- References
- II Systematic bibliography
- 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
Primarius noster scopus hic est ad redigendos auctores in ordinem, seu libros botanicos in methodum naturalem, ut tyrones sciant quos libros eligere debeant, auctoresque noscant, qui in hac vel illa scientiae nostrae partae scripserint.
Linnaeus, Bibliotheca botanica (1736).Die Bibliographie ist in ihrem weiteren Umfange der Codex diplomaticus der Literar-Geschichte, der sicherste Gradund Höhenmesser der literarischen Kultur und Tätigkeit.
Ebert, Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon (1821); quoted from Simon, Die Bibliographie der Biologie (1977).The difficulty in publishing an extended list of floras is to know where to stop.
Turrill, ‘Floras’; in Vistas in Botany (ed. Turrill), vol. 4 (1964).Definition and scope of the work
The aim of the present work, a revised and expanded version of that first published in 1984, is to furnish in bibliographic form a geographically arranged one-volume guide to the most useful nominally complete floras, checklists and related works dealing with the vascular plants of the world. Also included are concise historically oriented reviews of the state of floristic knowledge in different parts of the world, geographical conspectuses, and references to local and general bibliographies and indices. The work attempts as far as possible to account for titles up through 1999 that fall within its scope. The sequence of geographical units is, with slight modifications, that devised for the first edition.
In contrast to Geographical guide to floras of the world by Sidney F. Blake and Alice C. Atwood (vol. 1, 1942; vol. 2 by Blake alone, 1961) only one to a few ‘standard’ works are listed for each recognized geographical unit.
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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. 3 - 23Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001