Author: Bolus Herbarium
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: Barbara M. Thiers
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604699302
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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A treasury like no other Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor. Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source of data for their new role: understanding how the world’s flora is changing. Barbara Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things at both the molecular level and on a global scale can be applied to herbaria specimens, helping us address some of the most critical problems facing the world today. At its heart, Herbarium is a compelling reminder of one of humanity’s better impulses: to save things—not just for ourselves, but for generations to come.

Author: South African Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Herre Stegenga
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Category : Marine algae
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Author: Mary Gunn
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780869611296
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 844

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This text gives biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in Southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.

Author: Isaac Bayley Balfour
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Vols. 1-13 include Botanical necrology for 1887-89; vols. 1-4 include section called Record of current literature.

Author: Peter Goldblatt
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ISBN: 9780799213027
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: South African Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Mary R. S. Creese
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810872897
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Published in 1998, Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research. A companion volume, published in 2004, focused on women scientists from Western Europe. In this third volume, author Mary R.S. Creese expands her scope to include the contributions of 19th- and early 20th-century women of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The women whose lives and work are discussed here range from natural history collectors and scientific illustrators of the early and mid years of the 19th century to the first generation of graduates of the new colonial colleges and universities. Rarely acknowledged in publications of the British and European specialists, the contributions of these women nonetheless formed a significant part of the natural history information about extensive, previously unknown regions and their products. Rather than a biographical dictionary or a collection of self-contained essays on individuals from many time periods, Ladies in the Laboratory III is a connected narrative tied into the wider framework of 19th-century science and education. A well-organized blend of individual life stories and quantitative information, this volume is for everyone interested in the story of women's participation in 19th century science. The stories of these women make for fascinating reading and serve as a valuable source for the student of women's and colonial history.