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LoC No.: 01000850
Title: The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools
Note: Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
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Summary: "The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools" by Asa Gray is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This educational work serves to introduce readers, particularly students, to the principles of botany, focusing on the structure, growth, and behavior of flowering plants. Gray aims to equip newcomers with a foundational understanding of botanical concepts, emphasizing the importance of practical observation over rote memorization of technical terms. The opening of this volume presents a preface explaining its purpose and revisions from Gray's earlier works. It establishes that the book is designed for schools and aims to make botanical knowledge accessible and interesting to beginners by concentrating on flowering plants and their structural components. Gray introduces essential botanical vocabulary and outlines the structure and function of plants, setting the stage for a systematic study while underlining the practical aspects of plant observation and understanding. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
EBook No.: 33757
Published: Sep 18, 2010
Downloads: 167
Language: English
Subject: Plants
LoCC: Science: Botany
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
LoC No.: 01000850
Title: The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools
Note: Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Credits:
Produced by Curtis Weyant, Stephen H. Sentoff and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https:
//www.pgdp.net
Summary: "The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools" by Asa Gray is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This educational work serves to introduce readers, particularly students, to the principles of botany, focusing on the structure, growth, and behavior of flowering plants. Gray aims to equip newcomers with a foundational understanding of botanical concepts, emphasizing the importance of practical observation over rote memorization of technical terms. The opening of this volume presents a preface explaining its purpose and revisions from Gray's earlier works. It establishes that the book is designed for schools and aims to make botanical knowledge accessible and interesting to beginners by concentrating on flowering plants and their structural components. Gray introduces essential botanical vocabulary and outlines the structure and function of plants, setting the stage for a systematic study while underlining the practical aspects of plant observation and understanding. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
EBook No.: 33757
Published: Sep 18, 2010
Downloads: 167
Language: English
Subject: Plants
LoCC: Science: Botany
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.