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ORCHID BIOLOGY
REVIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES, VII |
| By: |
J. Arditti (Editor), Alec M. Pridgeon (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£185.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9048148375 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789048148370 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2010 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997 |
| Pages: |
394 |
| Synopsis: |
A Personal Note I decided to initiate Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives in about 1972 and (alone or with co-authors) started to write some of the chapters and the appendix for the volume in 1974 during a visit to the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Indonesia. Professor H. C. D. de Wit of Holland was also in Bogor at that time and when we discovered a joint interest in Rumphius he agreed to write a chapter about him. I visited Bangkok on my way home from Bogor and while there spent time with Professor Thavorn Vajrabhaya. He readily agreed to write a chapter. The rest of the chapters were solicited by mail and I had the complete manuscript on my desk in 1975. With that in hand I started to look for a publisher. Most of the publishers I contacted were not interested. Fortunately Mr James Twiggs, at that time editor of Cornell University Press, grew orchids and liked the idea. He decided to publish Orchid Biology: Reviews and Per- spectives, and volume I saw the light of day in 1977. I did not know if there would be a volume II but collected manuscripts for it anyway. Fortunately volume I did well enough to justify a second book, and the series was born. It is still alive at present - 20 years, seven volumes and three publishers later. I was in the first third of my career when volume I was published. |
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XXVIII, 394 p. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
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