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There were some revisions to Vol.1 in the cut down Atlas of illustrations version, which originally sold for £30 (the original two full size volumes were well over £100), but all cost more from booksellers now, even secondhand. I have both volumes of the original, plus the cut down version of the 'Atlas' pictures volume.However David Hunt now makes additions and revisions in his 'Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives'.An Example of Cactaceae Systematics Initiatives:-I also have the later work by Joel Lode, which again is over the £100 for the two volumes.
You can more or less say Joel 'un-lumps' most of what David 'lumped', bringing back many of the old generic names and a few more obscure ones besides. Certainly some of the 'lumping' in the NCL was unjustified since it was a classification based on morphology.
Whereas DNA Sequencing (as often used in the Lode books) has shown that some genera Hunt lumped came from different ev0lutionary lines so should never be 'lumped' in the same genus, even though morphologically appearing similar. Rebutia and Aylostera being examples frequently 'lumped' in morphological classifications, their similarities being mere convergence through inhabiting similar habitats.The NCL was stated to be the equivalent of Backeberg's Das Kakteen Lexicon and not intended to be a Britton & Rose or Backeberg's Die Cactaceae. Therefore volume one really lacks a comprehensive synonymy, as in Britton & Rose or Backeberg.
However volume two, the so called 'Atlas', is the best collection of pictures of authenticated habitat material of cacti ever brought together and far superior to Joel Lode's pictures, which are often of cultivated plants of unknown provenance in collections.If you say you now have volume 1 Ellie I presume that is just the text version rather than both volumes, therefore presume whoever is selling it held onto the pictures volume? If you cannot get Vol 2 the 'Atlas' pictures volume, I would suggest you try and pick up the cheaper cut down (smaller in size, not less pictures) Atlas version. Seems to have gone up a bit since I bought mine, but you may find it cheaper on EBAY or if you Google for it. Agreed that whilst available the authors should gain from their publication, however the NCL is out of print now. I was one of the pre publication subscribers to it, but unless you can find it secondhand a pdf may be your only way to obtain access to it in future. In some cases these limited run cactus books never get reprinted.
Under copyright (with permission)A series of periodic issues containing plant descriptions (with B&W pictures) and the classification according to Backeberg from 1934 to 1938. This four-language periodical was written in german, english, dutch and french. It aimed at being the world-wide reference among cactus publications.The non-german texts were wrtitten by various people.
The translations are sometimes very coarse if not wrong. Furthermore, typesetting is not very rigorous. Some corrections have been made in the interpreted file, however we recommend to refer essentially to the german text by Backeberg himself.
The book is dated December 31st, 1935. According to the “Library of congress, copyright office” the real copyright date is February 12th, 1936. This is confirmed by a postcard of the printer sent to Fric & Kreuzinger. Thus, it seems that the date of publication was chosen to antedate other publications.F.M. Knuth was Count of Knuthenborg an old Danish noble family. He began in the cactus literature as early as 1920 as the co-editor of “Nordisk Kaktus Tidsskrift” (Nordic cactus magazine).
Then he published “Den nye kaktusbog” (the new cactus book) and finally was co-author of Kaktus-ABC. Knuth was then completely forgotten probably because he was an active member of the DNSAP. Volume 5: (47.6MB; 2011-05-31) Echinocactus, Homalocephala, Astrophytum, Sclerocactus, Leuchtenbergia, Neogomesia, Ferocactus, Hamatocactus, Echinofossulocactus, Thelocactus, Echinomastus, Utahia, Pediocactus, Gymnocactus, Strombocactus, Obregonia, Toumeya, Navajoa, Pilocanthus, Turbinicarpus, Aztekium, Lophophora, Epithelantha, Mediocoryphantha, Gladulicactus, Ancistrocactus, Neolloydia, Neobesseya, Escobaria, Lepidocoryphantha, Coryphantha, Roseocactus, Encephalocarpus, Pelecyphora, Solisia, Ariocarpus, Mamillaria, Porfiria, Krainzia, Phellosperma, Dolichothele, Mamillopsis, Cochemiea. Under copyrightThe book summarizes Babckeberg's work in concise descriptions. The first edition dated 1966 was in German only. Editions issued after 1975 were amended by Walter Haage.
An English version was prepared by Lois Glass and published in 1977.The book is proposed owing to its historical interest. A reprint is unlikely since Backeberg's concepts do not fit any more modern botanical standards. The English version is “as is” and complies with the, article 15 concerning typographical arrangement. For the German version we still need an authorization of the right-holders.
If you can help solving the right-holder problem, please.Kakteen Lexikon (German):.