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Caspar Bauhin, (1560-1624) was the first professor of Botany at the University of Basel, and one of the most prominent plant systematists of his time, a forerunner of Linnaeus. He also founded one of the first University Botanical Gardens and collected a herbarium of thousands of plants that survives to today.

Anatomie générale : appliquée à la physiologie et à la médecine (Brosson, 1812), by Xavier Bichat (page images at HathiTrust) Elements of general anatomy, or, A description of every kind of organs composing the human body.

In his Pinax theatri botanica (1623; "Illustrated Exposition of Plants"), the most celebrated of the early attempts to name and catalog all known kinds of plants, he listed and described briefly about 6,000 species, while introducing the practice of naming plants by their genus and species (binomial…. Read More.

The crying tree, marion va. The document summarizes the inspection of a large oak tree with multiple cavities and cracks. It finds that the tree has grown additional support structures like buttress roots and woundwood to cope with the cavities.