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he founded the Museum of Natural History at Geneva, renovated the botanical garden, and established the Conservatoire Botanique, which presently includes the world's largest herbarium (approximately 5 million specimens). Isley
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De Candolle had his own theories, now obsolete, but his monument is his Prodromus, a huge collaborative effort ( Isley says of Lamarck that he "never wrote anything you could carry around without a push cart"; this seems to have been true of this era in France in general) that attempted to describe all the plant species on earth (Who wrote the section on fungi?). He did not live to see it completed; his place in its assembly was taken by his son after his death.Includes not only classification and description, but also ecology, phytogeography, and phylogeny.
According to Isley, the first phylogenetic treatment of this family
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