Inhalt
| 1. Nicolas Robin & Brigitte Hoppe Special issue – Formation of Experimentation in Plant Sciences from the Enlightenment to the 19th Century | S. 5 – 140 |
| 1.1 Nicolas Robin & Brigitte Hoppe Introductory Comments – Experimentation in Plant Sciences from the Enlightenment to the 19th Century | S. 5 – 13 |
| 1.2 Murray Mylechreest Thomas Andrew Knight (1759 – 1838) and the application of experimentation to horticu lture | S. 15 – 27 |
| 1.3 Sophie Jourdin Philippe Van Tieghem (1839 – 1914) and the approach of plant tissues culture | S. 29 – 50 |
| 1.4 Olga Elina Plants, private estates, and public assistance: development of plant experimentation in Russia, 18th – 19th centuries | S. 51 – 84 |
| 1.5 Fernando J. Luna Chemistry and botany applied to the manufacture of potash from the burning of plants in 18th century Brazil | S. 85 – 99 |
| 1.6 Brigitte Hoppe Experimentation in the Early Electrophysiology of Plants in the Frame of an Experiment-oriented Mechanical Natural Philosophy | S. 101 – 121 |
| 1.7 Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb, Márcia H. M. Ferraz & Silvia Waisse Studies on the Balsams in the 18th Century: A Modern Experimental Approach | S. 123 – 140 |
| 2. Rolf G. Beutel & Katharina Schneeberg Beetles in Darwin‘s Life and Work | S. 141 – 157 |
| 3. Ulrich Kutschera Sprengel-Darwin Principle of Cross Fertilisation and the Queen of Problems in Evolutionary Biology | S. 159 – 172 |
| 4. Rolf Löther „Kampf ums Dasein – vor, bei und nach Darwin | S. 173 – 194 |
| 5. Ulrich Rohde Die Erweiterung des Beobachtungsrahmens in der Biologie – Theorievorschlag zu einer zeitgemäßen Phänomenologie nach J. W. von Goethe | S. 196 – 280 |
| 6. Heinrich Dörfelt & Martin Eckart A previously unpublished fragment about basidiomycetes by Johanna Schultze-Wege (1844 – 1918) from Weimar, Germany | S. 281 – 294 |
| 7. Rüdiger Schultka, Ulrike Feicht, Luminita Göbbel & Lennart Olsson Wilhelm Roux (1850 – 1924) und seine Sammlung für Entwicklungsmechanik – Entstehung, Werdegang und Schicksal einer bedeutenden naturwissenschaftlichen Sammlung | S. 295 – 321 |
| 8. Michal Simunek & Uwe Hoßfeld Mendel‘s Manuscript of ‘Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden‘: The (Never) Ending Story? | S. 323 – 338 |
| 9. Daniel Droste Vom SS-Schulungsleiter zum Emigranten. Die Karriere des Zoologen Curt Kosswig und die Rolle der Biologie als Stütze des NS-Staates. | S. 339 – 370 |
| 10. Short Notice Pope acknowledges Genesis is only partly historical already in 1909 | S. 371 |