BONNET, (CHARLES).

Expériences sur la Végétation des Plantes dans d'autres Matiéres que la terre. Premier-Second Mémoire.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1750). 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome I. Pp. 420-446.

First appearance of a pioneer work on plant physiology.

"Bonnet is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profound influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. " (D.S.B. II: 286).

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