Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names, Clevelandina to Czernya (Volume V)
Synopsis
The present work represents Vol. 5 of the projected 20 volumes aimed for completion by 2014-2016. This book cover 15,000 to 18,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany.
Scope of the work:
Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the Region. Influences which have influenced a botanist's career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of information. From volume two onwards attempts have been made to provide brief biographical data on associated of person honoured, wherever possible.
A detailed index has been prepared. Eponyms of persons which will be covered in future volumes, but found mention in the present volume, have been given.
Utility of the book:
_ This will be of interest to both amateur and professional botanists as a compendium of information on botanists as in an Encyclopaedia with information on additional sources.
_ Will be of interest to regional botanists all over the world as botanists of most nationalities have been honoured.
_ Generic entries have been used as point sources for seeking information on development of a discipline, or history of floristic exploration of a region etc.
_ Information on mythological personages honoured in plant names are given.
_ Will be of interest to students of botany as Botanical History has been treated as a dynamic force shaping present and future course of botanical development with a web of interlinked botanical facts, founders, promoters, students, teachers, botanical influences and revolutions.
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Scope of the work:
Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the Region. Influences which have influenced a botanist's career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of information. From volume two onwards attempts have been made to provide brief biographical data on associated of person honoured, wherever possible.
A detailed index has been prepared. Eponyms of persons which will be covered in future volumes, but found mention in the present volume, have been given.
Utility of the book:
_ This will be of interest to both amateur and professional botanists as a compendium of information on botanists as in an Encyclopaedia with information on additional sources.
_ Will be of interest to regional botanists all over the world as botanists of most nationalities have been honoured.
_ Generic entries have been used as point sources for seeking information on development of a discipline, or history of floristic exploration of a region etc.
_ Information on mythological personages honoured in plant names are given.
_ Will be of interest to students of botany as Botanical History has been treated as a dynamic force shaping present and future course of botanical development with a web of interlinked botanical facts, founders, promoters, students, teachers, botanical influences and revolutions.
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