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Subject(s)

• Botanists, British [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Biographies [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Publishers' paper bindings (Binding)—England—London—20th century [Browse]

Series

Britain in pictures [More in this series]

Notes

The British people in pictures.

Bibliographic references

"Short bibliography": p. 48

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introductory
• Celt and Saxon
• William Turner and the Renaissance herbalists
• Lyte, Gerard and Parkinson
• Thomas Johnson and the British flora
• Morison and the Oxford garden
• John Ray
• Grew and plant anatomy
• The birth of plant physiology: Hales, Priestley and Knight
• The rise of the Linnean empire
• Sir Joseph Banks
• Robert Brown and the revival of the natural system
• Sir William Hooker and Kew Gardens
• Darwin and botany
• Sir Joseph Hooker
• Plant physiology and agriculture at Rothamsted
• Local floras and field clubs
• Revolution in South Kensington: Thiselton-Dyer, Vines and Marshall Ward
• The twentieth century.

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LCCN

^^^45005767^

OCLC

1509882

RCP

H - S

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