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BOTANICAL research, like that in other branches of science, almost ceased in Central Europe when the Germans marched in. With their laboratories closed, Czech botanists retreated to their gardens and homes, where they had the leisure in which to examine the results of previous researches, conducted before such work was interrupted. Prof. Bohumil Němec, already the author of several standard Czech botanical works, wrote a comprehensive treatise on "Plant Life", in which he used more than seven hundred original illustrations. In addition, he published a more popular work, "The Green Kingdom", and also articles dealing with the mechanism of plant growth, movement and reproduction for biological and scientific journals, which seem to have increased in importance as the nation's position became more desperate. Dr. S. Prát continued to publish sections of his "Rostlinopis", a kind of botanical encyclopædia inspired, apparently, by the work a hundred years ago of those two pioneers of botany in Bohemia, the brothers J. S. and K. B. Presl, who used the same title for their "Botany", which they did not live to complete.
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Czech Botanists During the War. Nature 156, 416 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156416d0
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