Books by Agnes Arber

Agnes Arber (1879-1960) provides here a fascinating exploration of the morphology of flowering plants. First published in 1950, this book combines the modern, post-Darwinian approach with biology's much earlier roots in natural philosophy to produce a rich tour of botanical history that touches on every era of the field.

Agnes Arber (1879-1960) was a prominent British biologist specialising in plant morphology and comparative anatomy. First published in 1934, this volume provides a detailed comparative study of the Gramineae family of plants (including cereals, grasses and bamboos) with a short history of human interaction with these plants.

In this book Arber turns from the work of a specialist in one science to those wider questions which any scientist must ask at intervals. What, in short, is the relationship between the eye that sees and the mind that weighs and pronounces?