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LOGAN, JAMES. Experimenta et meletemata de plantarum generatione. Experiments and Considerations on the Generation of Plants. Translated from the
LOGAN, JAMES. Experimenta et meletemata de plantarum generatione. Experiments and Considerations on the Generation of Plants. Translated from the original Latin by John Fothergill. [2], iii, [3], 39 pages, including ad leaf. 8vo, modern 1/4 leather in period style; preliminaries lightly foxed, small chip in fore edge of title. London: C. Davis, 1747
- Notes: first edition in english, also reprinting the text of the 1739 Latin original edition. "James Logan, who served for two years as governor of Pennsylvania, might well have become a notable botanist if he had followed his scientific rather than his political bent... This is an important early work on the fertilization of plants"--Hunt 529. Alden 747/103 (for Logan's account of botanical experiments carried out in his Philadelphia garden).
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