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Herbarium : the quest to preserve & classify the world's plants / Barbara M. Thiers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 27 x 23 cmISBN:
  • 1604699302
  • 9781604699302
Other title:
  • Herbarium : the quest to preserve and classify the world's plants
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QK75 .T45 2020
Contents:
(from table of contents) Preface -- The origin of herbaria -- Herbaria and the age of botanical exploration -- Development of herbaria in the United States -- Development of herbaria around the world -- The future of herbaria.
Subject: A heavily illustrated history of herbaria from one of the world's foremost experts.Summary: Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grow around them organizing the specimens into collections. Know as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Thiers explores how herbaria emerged and have changed over time. She explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things on both the molecular and global level will help us address some of the critical problems facing the world today.--Adapted from jacket.
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Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves QK75 .T45 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800182412
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Chapter on herbaria around the world discusses Australia, Brazil, The People's Republic of China, and South Africa.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index.

(from table of contents) Preface -- The origin of herbaria -- Herbaria and the age of botanical exploration -- Development of herbaria in the United States -- Development of herbaria around the world -- The future of herbaria.

A heavily illustrated history of herbaria from one of the world's foremost experts.

Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grow around them organizing the specimens into collections. Know as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Thiers explores how herbaria emerged and have changed over time. She explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things on both the molecular and global level will help us address some of the critical problems facing the world today.--Adapted from jacket.

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