A Text-Book of Botany. 1875. (Reprint 2011). illus. XII, 858 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

J. Sachs (1832-97) was an important and influential German botanist.He attended Charles University in Prague, gaining his doctorate in 1856.After appointments in Dresden, Chemnitz and Bonn, he took a professorship at the University of Freiburg in 1867. A year later, he accepted a chair at Würzburg, where he stayed for the rest of his career. Sachs made important contributions across botanical science, notably in cytology and photosynthesis. He was also largely responsiblefor the leap in understanding of plant physiology that took place in thesecond half of the nineteenth century. His famous Textbook of Botany,published here in the 1875 English translation of the final Germanedition (1874), takes the physiological approach that he pioneered andfeatures hundreds of instructive illustrations and a full index. It wasthe most influential botanical text of its day, and the standard textbook on the subject for many years.