The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants

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Author: Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) from the library of James Francis Tennant Date: 1875 Publisher: John Murray Place: London Description: viii+208+{32 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Second edition, revised; First Edition in book form. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants is a landmark botanical book written by Charles Darwin, first published in book form in 1875. Following his groundbreaking work on On the Origin of Species , Darwin sought to provide further evidence for his theory of natural selection by demonstrating how weak-stemmed plants adapted mechanically to compete for light. Darwin meticulously studied over a hundred species and categorized climbing plants into five main classes based on their specialized organs and physiological habits. This volume is a revised reprint of Darwin's well-known treatise on the habits of climbing plants , published in 1865 in the ninth volume of the " Journal of the Linnean Society ," with such additions and corrections as the progress of knowledge since that time has rendered necessary. Although the subject had been investigated previously to that time by the German physiologists Palm and Von Mohl, it was Mr. Darwin's publication, describing many facts not previously recorded, that first introduced the remarkable phenomena connected with it to the notice of the general public. The phrase Climbing Plant is

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