Lectures on the elements of botany. Part I, Containing the descriptive anatomy of those organs on which the growth and preservation of the vegetable depend. Vol. I / By Anthony Todd Thomson, F.L.S.

  • Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Lectures on the elements of botany. Part I, Containing the descriptive anatomy of those organs on which the growth and preservation of the vegetable depend. Vol. I / By Anthony Todd Thomson, F.L.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    er fess to enter fully into the explanation of the laws which regulate the functions of these organic structures, yet, much of physiology has been in- troduced, both to illustrate the descriptions, and to relieve the dryness of the anatomical details. The necessity of an accurate knowledge of struc- ture, will be fully perceived. in the perusal of the physiological discussions which are intended to form the subject of the second volume. I trust that the plan of illustrating the descriptions by the introduction of cuts into the body of the letter-press, will be found of considerable assist- ance to the student; and that the engraved plates, although not all of equal merit in point of execu- tion, will, nevertheless, be found sufficient for conveying correct ideas of those parts, which, from their minuteness, are necessarily microscopic objects. As an apology for errors which may be detected in the volume, I might plead the interruptions, anxieties, and unremitting duties of very exten- sive professional occupations; but, as I am aware | that no author is dragged before the tribunal of