Excerpt from A History of Botany, Being a Continuation of Sachs, History of Botany, 1530-1860 Opinion as to the justice of such selection as I have made and as to the omissions I have felt necessary. On such points I shall welcome the criticism of my readers with great cordiality, recognizing fully what variety of Opinion may exist on the details of every subject. I claim, however, to have made a sincere attempt to give credit where it is due and to judge no one unfairly. In one respect I have departed from the plan of Sachs' volume; I have given a bibliography as full and as complete as I have been able to compile of the works to which I have found occasion to refer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.