Roots to seeds : 400 years of Oxford botany / Stephen A. Harris.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 239 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 27 cmISBN:- 1851245618
- 9781851245611
- 400 years of Oxford botany
- Four hundred years of Oxford botany
- QK21.G7 H37 2021
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QK21.F8 P75 2013 Of elephants & roses : French natural history, 1790-1830 / | QK21 .G24 1938 A history of the Linnean society of London / | QK21.G7 D47 1987 A celebration of flowers : two hundred years of Curtis's Botanical Magazine / | QK21.G7 H27 2021 Roots to seeds : 400 years of Oxford botany / | QK21.G7 H64 1969 The growth of natural history in Stuart England from Gerard to the Royal Society / | QK21.G7 H64 1973 The development of natural history in Tudor England / | QK21.G7 S57 1996 Cultivating women, cultivating science : Flora's daughters and botany in England, 1760-1860 / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-235) and index.
Root : origins -- Stem : collections -- Leaf : collectors and collecting -- Bud : naming and classifying -- Fruit : applied botany -- Seed : teaching.
Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University.0This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer's renowned illustrations for Flora Graeca - an extraordinarily lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical publication of plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean - and rare plant specimens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild's Mule (the first artificially created hybrid plant). 0Together with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, plant models and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid botanists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants.00Exhibition: Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK (May-October 2021).