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Phenology The study of plant geography initiated by Linnaeus and carried on by Humboldt and others was well advanced in the early years of the eighteenth century, but the study of the influence of climate on the growth of plants in different parts of the world was of later date. On January 22, 1834, Mr. John Hogg addressed a letter to the Philosophical Magazine "On the Influence of the Climate of Naples upon the Periods of Vegetation as compared with that of some other Places in Europe"(vol. 4, 1834, p. 274), with the view of making the importance of this subject of study better known in England. Most of the observations quoted are extracted from an Italian work on Naples or from Gilbert White, but Hogg was one of the first authors to attempt actually to work out the average dates of germination, flowering, fruiting, etc., of a number of plants in different regions, and to interpret the results in terms of climate, so that he may be regarded as a pioneer of the science of phenology.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 133, 113–114 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133113a0
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