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DOUBTLESS it is a coincidence that the year 1831 marks not only the founding of the British Association but also, so far as a date can mark, the beginning of a threefold epoch in botany: the search for a natural system of classification; the emergence of morphology as a study separate from taxonomy; and the development of physiology.
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HILL, T. The Advancement of Botany*. Nature 128, 780–783 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128780a0
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