Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinca

Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinca is amied at publishing innovative achievements in botanical researches,introducing current trends and innovative theories in botany at home and abroad and discussing the theories and practices of botanical resources and conservancy in order to enhance the development of basic theories and applied innovative techniques in botany and serving economic construction in China.     

Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica

Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica is amied at publishing innovative achievements in botanical researches,introducing current trends and innovative theories in botany at home and abroad and discussing the theories and practices of botanical resources and conservancy in order to enhance the development of basic theories and applied innovative techniques in botany and serving economic construction in China.     

Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica

Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica is amied at publishing innovative achievements in botanical researches,introducing current trends and innovative theories in botary at home and abroad and discussing the theories and practices of botanical resources and conservancy in order to enhance the development of basic theories and applied innovative techniques in botany and serving economic construction in China.     

BOTANICAL COLLECTING IN 18TH‐CENTURY LONDON

The correspondence exchanged between Captain John Blake, John Bradby Blake, and their associates offers a valuable insight into the sociable world of Enlightenment botany. By considering these sources alongside the records of other contemporary scholars of botany, this paper examines the composition of the community of plant collectors and botanical scholars with whom father and son were interacting in the 1760s and 1770s. The documents also reveal the ways in which botanical knowledge circulated among the members of these communities. Amateur botany, it turns out, was deeply linked to gardening and to the emerging trade in horticultural plants, yet the contributions made by gardeners and nurserymen have been largely overlooked. In sum, the Blake collection at Oak Spring helps to answer larger questions about the nature of Enlightenment sociability, about diversity within botanical networks, and about the ways in which that social diversity affected botanical collecting.     

Dr. Auzoux's botanical teaching models and medical education at the universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen

In the 1860s, Dr. Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux introduced a set of papier-mâché teaching models intended for use in the botanical classroom. These botanical models quickly made their way into the educational curricula of institutions around the world. Within these institutions, Auzoux’s models were principally used to fulfil educational goals, but their incorporation into diverse curricula also suggests they were used to implement agendas beyond botanical instruction. This essay examines the various uses and meanings of Dr. Auzoux’s botanical teaching models at the universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen in the nineteenth century. The two main conclusions of this analysis are: (1) investing in prestigious scientific collections was a way for these universities to attract fee-paying students so that better medical accommodation could be provided and (2) models were used to transmit different kinds of botanical knowledge at both universities. The style of botany at the University of Glasgow was offensive and the department there actively embraced and incorporated ideas of the emerging new botany. At Aberdeen, the style of botany was defensive and there was some hesitancy when confronting new botanical ideas.     

ALMIRA HART LINCOLN PHELPS (1793–1884) AND THE SPREAD OF BOTANY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA

Mrs. Phelps was influenced by her older sister Emma Willard, a well known educational reformer, and by Amos Eaton, who helped form her botanical and scientific understanding. Feeling the lack of a suitable botanical textbook particularly for female students who were becoming more prevalant, she wrote, Familiar Lectures on Botany, published in 1829, using her first husband's surname (Lincoln). It quickly became popular and continued to be revised and reprinted through 1869. In 1833, a second botany text for lower level students, Botany for Beginners, appeared. It too, went through many reprintings up to 1891. Mrs. Phelps’ other books and writings on science and education were popular also. The botanical texts were educationally innovative in starting with flower structure using common living examples and integrating morphological and physiological aspects of plants. The Linnaean System was used to classify the “most common native and foreign” plants that were described mainly from Eaton's manuals. Clear figures, often copied from well-known authorities helped to instruct teachers and students. Because of its wide usage, even in later years in competition with the widely used textbooks of Asa Gray and Alphonso Wood, Mrs. Phelps’ books were an important factor in educating many students, especially females, in botany and inducing some of them to have a life-long interest in the science and in teaching it to others. She was, through her writings, a person who helped provide a favorable climate for the developing profession of botany in America.     

ON THE HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SOME MULTIPLE DISCOVERIES IN BOTANY, 1648–1965

Historians and others have given attention to multiple independent discoveries because of their implications for the nature of scientific discovery in general. However, previously published lists of such discoveries include almost no examples from botany. That this has been a matter of oversight is shown by the presentation of 22 cases of multiple botanical discoveries, the circumstances of which are briefly described. These examples show a number of the same general characteristics as those in other fields of science. They range in importance from the broadly sweeping to the narrowly specific, and show various degrees of simultaneity. They illustrate the problems of interpretation involved in judging functional equivalence, identity of central message, and priority. The bearing of some of the examples on various theories of the cause of multiple discoveries is also discussed. It is concluded that multiple discoveries have probably occurred as frequently in botany as in other sciences, and they display the same characteristics and generate the same problems of interpretation.     

The correspondence of Thomas Dale (1700-1750): Botany in the transatlantic Republic of Letters

This paper seeks to provide a full account of the life and career of Dr. Thomas Dale (1700-1750), with particular reference to his botanical works and correspondence. Born in Hoxton, London, Dale studied medicine at Leiden and engaged fully in the social, literary and epistolary network in which botany was practised in eighteenth-century England. In 1730, however, Dale relocated to the British colonial port of Charles Town, South Carolina. Here he continued to engage in a transatlantic network of botanical exchange and discussion, corresponding on equal and reciprocal terms with his former colleagues in England. Where Dale differs from naturalists in South Carolina before him is that his motives for pursuing botany and for corresponding with English naturalists were located firmly in the New World. Such a conclusion forms a valuable, albeit small contribution to models for the development of national scientific cultures in the imperial world. Similarly, Dale's pursuit of botanical information in South Carolina provides a small amount of material with which to illustrate currently fashionable models for the mediated exchange and circulation of scientific knowledge.     

植物学研究态势——生命科学研究态势之一

作者采用科学文献计量学方法、分析比较方法等,通过对1993年至2002年9月的植物学论文文献量进行统计和分析,反映国内外著者、研究机构、国家等在植物分子细胞研究、植物与环境研究及药用植物研究三个方面的植物学文献产出能力和科学影响力状况,揭示国内外植物学研究发展态势。     

Half century of botany publishing in Revista de Biologia Tropical

Over its first half century the Revista de Biología Tropical published many papers and supplements dealing with the botany. However, the Revista is not a primary botanical journal. A wide variety of topics and geographic sources have been included, taking into consideration species from the Neotropics, but also from India and Nigeria. A complete index of botanical papers is presented.     

Saving Our Planet's Flora, the Contribution of the French National Natural History Museum to the Implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

The National Natural History Museum plays a key role in the implementation of the GSPC through its botanical gardens,the Conservatoire Botanique National du Bassin Parisien,the Herbarium,and also by providing expertise on all areas of the Strategy(botany,conservation,ethonobotany,article 8j,substainable use),etc.For 2 of the goals of GSPC(conserving plant diversity,Understanding and Documenting Plant Diversity),the Muséum has developed activities all over the world,including compilation of various flora and...     

提高植物学实验教学质量的一些体会

实验是植物学教学的重要环节。针对植物学传统实验教学中的实际情况, 进行了实验方法力求多样化、变部分过程性实验为过程性实验、增加综合性实验和研究性实验等尝试, 进而充分发挥教师和学生在实验教学中的作用, 培养学生的创造能力。     

INVITED SPECIAL PAPER: History of the botanical teaching laboratory in the United States

The establishment of teaching laboratories for botany in the United States was strongly influenced in the early part of the 19th century by the founding of a laboratory of natural history at the Rensselaer School by Amos Eaton who inspired numerous educators, particularly women. By midcentury and later, botany programs were established at land-grant colleges and the so-called “new Botany” movement spread from them. In the latter part of the century additional changes were brought about by the influence of German laboratory activity and botanists’ reactions to the introduction of the Huxley-Martin biology programs to America. During these times, Americans were improving their own manufactured microscopes, laboratory supplies, and equipment capabilities. By the beginning of the 20th century, laboratory teaching of botanical subjects was widely accepted as normal in universities and colleges, as well as in some high schools.     

药用植物磨芋的考证

磨芋是具有悠久栽培历史的食用、药用植物,有多个名称。经考证,首载于《名医别录》的由跋,是现今广泛载种的磨芋(A.Konjac),后来的许多本草著作把磨芋的一、二年生苗称为由跋;首载于《开宝衣草》的蒟蒻或蒻头,是指磨芋和疏毛磨芋(A Sinensis),但一般说来,蒟蒻就是磨芋(A.Konjac).“磨芋”这个词最早见于《植物名实图考》,吴其濬置之于“天南星”条下,后人以“魔芋”取代了“磨芋”;磨芋的学名是AmorphophalltlS konjac C.Koch,而Amorphophallus rivieri Durieu是它的同物异名。     

Caspar Bauhin (1560-1624)

The paper describes the life and scientific work of Caspar Bauhin, whose 425th anniversary of his birth is in 1985. He is well-known in anatomy and botany and some species of plants are called after him. In anatomy his name is linked with the ileocaecal valve, though he apparently did not discover it. Especially Bauhin was engaged in improvement of anatomical and botanical nomenclature.     

Araceae of Mulu National Park. I. Four new species of Schismatoglottis (Araceae)

Four new species of Schismatoglottis are described and illustrated from Mulu National Park in Malaysian Borneo: Schismatoglottis fossae (Patentinervia Clade), S. roseopedes and S. serratodentata (Calyptrata Clade) and S. pellucida (currently unplaced but likely in the Multinervia clade). A brief summary is provided of botanical exploration at Mulu, notably where pertinent to aroid botany.     

广西近代植物调查采集研究简志

<正> 广西位于我国南方,南面濒临北部湾,北面和湖南、贵州相邻,西部和云南高原相接,既受到太平洋气候的影响,也受到大陆气候的影响。广西的地形地质奇异,有世界著名的岩溶地形,因此植物种类极为丰富。从事植物调查采集研究的广西植物研究所成立已届五十周年,回顾过去在广西进行植物调查研究的历史,对于今后植物科学研究和工作的开展可能都有意义。