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Excerpt from Botanical Features of North American Deserts Botanical science in its technical and applied branches has reached a stage of development in which it has become plainly evident that adequate progress in research in physiology, in comprehensions of life histories, and in formulating the general principles governing the origin, environic relations and distributional movements of plants may be expected only by experimental methods in the field or in actual contact with the types of plants under consideration under normal environmental conditions. In no part of the subject is this so imperative as in the study of the xerophytic and highly specialized forms characteristic of the desert regions of the world, which comprise a total area equal to that of a large continent. The aridity, widely ranging temperatures of soil and air, physical and chemical properties of the soils, conditions of insolation and radio-activity, together with the special forces modifying distribution, furnish a set of conditions not easily duplicated by the regulation of the artificial climates of glass-houses and not adequately represented by preserved material in herbaria and other collections. A European botanist of ability scarcely lays down his work at the end of a life of zeal and industry devoted to the study of the cacti under cultivation in a climate entirely foreign to them, when an examination of these peculiar forms in their native habitats reveals the necessity for a complete repetition of the entire investigation. When the Carnegie Institution of Washington was established, Mr. Frederick V. Coville determined to present to it a plan for a Desert Botanical Laboratory. This long-cherishcd project was an outcome of his work in the Death Valley Expedition, in 1891. A plan was accordingly drawn up by him and presented to the Institution's Advisory Committee in Botany. This committee considered and approved it because it promised results concerning the fundamental processes of pro
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1330602277
- ISBN 13 9781330602270
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages247
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