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  • INTRODUCTION

  • Edited by Henry William Rutherford
  • Book:
    Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge
    Published online:
    05 October 2010
    Print publication:
    20 July 2009, pp vii-xiii
    First published in:
    1908

  • Summary

    The library of Charles Darwin has now found a permanent home in his own University, and it is perhaps appropriate that it should be in the Botany School, since it was a Cambridge professor of Botany who, more than any one man, determined his career as a naturalist.

    The collection is not identical with that at Down. Thus the books he wrote and some few others from Down are in my own possession. There are also a few books of mine which, for the sake of convenience, are kept in the Darwin library: these are marked with an asterisk in the catalogue. Darwin's pamphlets are not included in the catalogue though part of them are on the shelves along side his books. The rest of the pamphlets are in the building and a manuscript catalogue of the whole is in my possession. His habit was to treat each pamphlet as a book, to number them and keep them in order on a shelf. But he was not consistent in the treatment of the publications received and many pamphlet-like volumes occur among his books.

    He hardly ever had a book bound, and the collection retains to a great degree its original ragged appearance. But some binding has necessarily been done, thus the copy of H. Müller's Befruchtung which he preserved “from complete dissolution by putting a metal clip over the back” has now received more solid protection.

  • IV - Biological conditions on Krakatau

  • Ernst Alfred
  • Translated by A. C. Seward
  • Book:
    The New Flora of the Volcanic Island of Krakatau
    Published online:
    07 September 2010
    Print publication:
    20 July 2009, pp 48-53
    First published in:
    1908

  • Summary

    The new flora of Krakatau demonstrates in a remarkable degree how quickly plants are able to take possession of a sterilised region even under the most unfavourable conditions. It is by the cooperation of a variety of factors that living germs, which have been carried by some agency or other to new land like Krakatau, are able to continue their existence and even to produce new plants. A large proportion of the germs which reach the new land do not survive because they fail to find ground suited to their development or because of unfavourable climatic conditions. Seeds and fruits of other plants, for which the conditions of the new habitat may be congenial, have lost the power of germination during transport either by desiccation or by excessive wetting, or they may retain the power to germinate for a short time only after falling from the tree and this has been lost in the course of their long voyage. Many of the seeds which are capable of germination and further development are destroyed by animals either before or during germination, or they may have been killed by changes in the substratum. In the early stages of the colonisation of fresh ground, the struggle with other plants for space and light may be disregarded.

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